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Resolutions adopted by UN conferences

The following is a list of resolutions on romanization and script conversion, adopted by United Nations conferences on the standardization of geographical names. The texts of all resolutions are available on the UNGEGN website. Resolutions of a general character are in bold.

• 2012
• X/6. Romanization of Belarusian geographical names
• X/7. Romanization of Bulgarian geographical names
• X/8. Romanization of Iranian geographical names
• X/9. Romanization of Ukrainian geographical names
• 2007
• IX/8. Implementation of romanization systems by sponsoring countries
• IX/9. Romanization of Hebrew
• 2002
• VIII/13. Romanization of Thai geographical names
• VIII/14. Romanization of Serbian Cyrillic
• 1998
• VII/4. Review of the amended Beirut system of 1972 for the romanization of Arabic script
  Note. This resolution is an elaboration of res. II/8
• 1987
• V/18. Romanization of the Russian alphabet for geographical names
• V/19. Romanization of the Greek alphabet for geographical names
• V/20. Romanization of the Korean alphabet for geographical names
• 1982
• IV/14. Conversion into non-Roman writing systems
• IV/15. Guidelines for the consideration of romanization systems
  Note. See also res. IX/8
• IV/16. Guidelines for the achievement of systems of romanization
• IV/17. Transliteration into Roman and Devanagari scripts of the Indian Division
• 1977
• III/8. Romanization of Chinese geographical names
• III/9. Romanization of Arabic characters
  Note. This resolution is an elaboration of res. II/8
• III/10. Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet
  Note. This resolution is superseded by res. X/7
• III/11. Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian Cyrillic alphabets of Yugoslavia
  Note. See also corrections in res. VIII/14
• III/12. Transliteration into Roman and Devanagari scripts of the Indian Division
  Note. See also further comments in res. IV/17
• III/13. Romanization of the Hebrew alphabet
  Note. This resolution is updated by res. IX/9
• III/25. Single romanization system for each non-Roman writing system
• 1972
• II/5. Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet
  Note. This resolution is superseded by res. III/10 (and later by res. X/7)
• II/6. Cyrillic alphabets of Yugoslavia
  Note. This resolution is elaborated in res. III/11
• II/7. Romanization of the Amharic alphabet
• II/8. Romanization of Arabic geographical names
  Note. See also further comments in res. III/9 and VII/4
• II/9. Romanization of Hebrew geographical names
  Note. This resolution is elaborated in res. III/13 and updated by res. IX/9
• II/10. Romanization of Khmer geographical names
• II/11. Transliteration into Roman and Devanagari of the languages of the Indian group
  Note. This resolution is updated by res. III/12 and commented in res. IV/17
• II/13. Publication of romanization systems
• 1967
• I/9. A single romanization system
• I/10. Diacritical signs which accompany letters of the Roman alphabet
• I/11. Diacritical signs which accompany letters of the Arabic alphabet
• I/12. Romanization of Arabic geographical names
  Note. This resolution is updated by res. II/8
• I/13. Romanization of Iranian geographical names
  Note. This resolution is superseded by res. X/8
• I/14. Romanization of Thai geographical names
  Note. This resolution is updated by res. VIII/13
• I/15. Romanization of Chinese geographical names
  Note. This resolution is updated by res. III/8
• I/17. Transliteration of Amharic into the Roman alphabet
  Note. This resolution is elaborated in res. II/7

Updated: 2013-01-08