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- Meeting of Working Group members with Armenian experts (virtual, 10 June 2021)
- 2nd Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (New York / virtual, 3–7 May 2021)
- Meeting of the Working Group (New York, 1 May 2019)
- 1st Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (New York, 29 April – 3 May 2019)
- Meeting of the Working Group (Paris, 20 March 2018)
- 11th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (New York, 8–17 August 2017)
- Meeting of the Working Group (New York, 11 August 2017)
- 30th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 7 and 18 August 2017)
- Meeting of the Working Group (Prague, 7 April 2017)
- 29th Session of UNGEGN (Bangkok, 25–29 April 2016)
- Meeting of the Working Group (Bangkok, 29 April 2016)
- 28th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 28 April – 2 May 2014)
- Meeting of the Working Group (New York, 1 May 2014)
- 10th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (New York, 31 July – 9 August 2012)
- Meeting of the Working Group (New York, 3 August 2012)
- 27th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 30 July and 10 August 2012)
- Meeting of the Working Group (Gdańsk, 18 May 2012)
- 26th Session of UNGEGN (Vienna, 2–6 May 2011)
- Meeting of the Working Group (Vienna, 5 May 2011)
- 25th Session of UNGEGN (Nairobi, 5–12 May 2009)
- Meeting of the Working Group (Nairobi, 26 May 2009)
- 9th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (New York, 21–30 August 2007)
- 24th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 20 and 31 August 2007)
- Meeting of the Working Group (Tallinn, 9–10 October 2006)
- 23rd Session of UNGEGN (Vienna, 28 March – 4 April 2006):
- Meeting of the Working Group (Vienna, 30 March 2006)
- 22nd Session of UNGEGN (New York, 20–29 April 2004):
- 8th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (Berlin, 27 August – 5 September 2002):
- 21st Session of UNGEGN (Berlin, 26 August and 6 September 2002):
- Meeting of the Working Group (London, 16–17 May 2001):
- 20th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 17–28 January 2000):
- 7th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (New York, 13–22 January 1998; below all links will direct to the UNGEGN website):
- 19th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 12 and 23 January 1998):
- 18th Session of UNGEGN (Geneva, 12–23 August 1996):
- 17th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 13–24 June 1994):
- 6th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (New York, 25 August – 3 September 1992):
- 16th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 24 August and 4 September 1992):
- 15th Session of UNGEGN (Geneva, 11–19 November 1991):
- 14th Session of UNGEGN (Geneva, 7–26 May 1989):
- 5th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (Montréal, 18–30 August 1987):
- Report of the Conference (for romanization issues see pages 24–32 /PDF 30–38/)
Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- E/CONF.79/L.10: Scientific principles applied in the conversion on scripts (submitted by the Dutch- and German-Speaking Division; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.79/L.23: Romanization systems and the donor principle (submitted by the United States; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.79/INF/8: The state of Romanization in Japan (submitted by Japan)
- E/CONF.79/INF/17: Review of progress in Romanization (submitted by the United Kingdom)
- E/CONF.79/INF/32: Standardization of geographical names in Ethiopia (submitted by Ethiopia; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.79/INF/38: Conversion of the Greek alphabet into Latin characters (submitted by Greece and Cyprus; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.79/INF/39: The Romanized transliteration of Thai (submitted by Thailand; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.79/INF/56: A computerized toponymic transliteration/transcription/translation system (submitted by Israel; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.79/INF/61: Information on the Romanization system for Russian Cyrillic geographical names (submitted by USSR; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.79/INF/65: Standardization of geographical names in India - adoption of modified table of transliteration from Devanagari to Roman (submitted by the WG ad hoc chairman on behalf of India)
- E/CONF.79/INF/68: Report on the state of standardization of geographical names and romanization in Korea (submitted by the Republic of Korea; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.79/INF/70: Romanization system of Pakistan (submitted by Pakistan; digital copy not yet available)
- 13th Session of UNGEGN (Montréal, 17 and 31 August 1987):
- Report of the Session (for Working Group on a Single Romanization System for Each Non-Roman Writing System /co-convenors: G. Quinting, United States, and J. Breu, Austria/ see page 7)
- 12th Session of UNGEGN (Geneva, 29 September – 7 October 1986):
- 11th Session of UNGEGN (Geneva, 15–23 October 1984):
- 4th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (Geneva, 24 August – 14 September 1982):
- 10th Session of UNGEGN (Geneva, 23 August and 15 September 1982):
- Report of the Session (for Working Group on a Single Romanization System /convenor: E. Földi, Hungary/ see page 6)
- 9th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 17–27 February 1981):
- 8th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 26 February – 9 March 1979):
- 3rd United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (Athens, 17 August – 7 September 1977):
- 7th Session of UNGEGN (Athens, 16 August and 8 September 1977):
- Report of the Session (for Working Group on a Single Romanization System for Each Non-Roman Writing System /chairman: E. Földi, Hungary/ see page 4)
- 6th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 5–26 March 1975):
- 5th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 5–16 March 1973):
- 2nd United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (London, 10–31 May 1972):
- Report of the Conference (for romanization issues see pages 5–7 /PDF 10–12/)
- E/CONF.61/L.5: Report of the Working Group on a Single Romanization, 19 February 1970 to 6 December 1971 (part I) (digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5 Add.1: Report of the Working Group on a Single Romanization, 7 December 1971 to 15 April 1972 (part II) (digital copy not yet available)
Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- E/CONF.61/L.5/Add.2: Transliteration into Roman and Devanagari of the Indian group (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/Add.3: Writing systems: transfer of names from one writing system into another; comparative tables (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/Add.4: Transliteration of Khmer writing (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/Add.5: Transliteration of Thai writing (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/Add.6: Transliteration of Maldivian writing (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/Add.7: Transliteration of the Amharic alphabet (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/Add.8: Transliteration of the Arabic alphabet (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/Add.9: Translittération du macédonien en caractères latins (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/ Add.10: Transliteration of Bulgarian writing (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/ Add.11: Transliteration of Somali writing (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/ Add.12: Transliteration of Persian writing (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/ Add.13: Translittération du mongol en caractères latins (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/ Add.14: Transliteration of modern Greek writing (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/ Add.15: Transliteration of Serbo-Croatian writing (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/ Add.16: Transliteration of Laotian writing (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/ Add.17: Transliteration of Japanese writing (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/ Add.18: Transliteration of Khmer writing (part II) (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.15: The standardization of geographical names in Israel (submitted by Israel)
- E/CONF.61/L.21 and Corr.1: Writing systems (submitted by Austria, Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands)
- E/CONF.61/L.28: Romanization of Chinese (submitted by the East, Central and South-East Europe Division and the USSR Division, see also Add.1)
- E/CONF.61/L.34: Canadian policy with regard to the standardization of recently collected Eskimo toponyms according to the Lefebvre-Gagné orthography (submitted by Canada)
- E/CONF.61/L.43: Romanization of Cyrillic script (submitted by Austria)
- E/CONF.61/L.75: On Romanization systems for Russian place names; comparative study of the systems of Romanization of the Russian alphabet (submitted by USSR; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.77: Report on the standardization of geographical names: Egypt (submitted by Egypt; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.79: A system of transliteration and transcription of Bulgarian geographical names into Latin letters (submitted by Bulgaria; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.82: Transcription of the Cyrillic alphabet into Roman characters (submitted by Czechoslovakia; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.90: The Pinyin system: a system of the transcription of Chinese characters into Roman letters (submitted by Czechoslovakia; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.92: Romanization guide (submitted by the United States; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.97: Principles of Romanization (submitted by Hungary; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.106: Romanization of geographical names for international use (submitted by the United States; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.108: Transcription of the Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet on the 1 : 2,500,000 World Map (submitted by Hungary; digital copy not yet available)
- 4th Session of UNGEGN (London, 9 May and 1 June 1972):
- 3rd Session of UNGEGN (New York, 2–12 February 1971):
- 2nd Session of UNGEGN (New York, 10–20 March 1970):
- United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (Geneva, 4–22 September 1967):
Updated: 2017-08-23