Montevideo Resolution

The Montevideo Resolution is the common name for Resolution IV.4.422-4224, passed in Montevideo, Uruguay on December 10, 1954 by the General Conference of UNESCO. The resolution was in support of Esperanto, an alternate international language, and recommended that the Director-General of UNESCO follow current developments in the use of the language. In 1977, the Director-General visited the World Congress of Esperanto in Reykjavík, Iceland and in 1985, UNESCO passed a further resolution recommending that member countries encourage the teaching of Esperanto. The 1954 resolution was the result of a long campaign by Ivo Lapenna.

General Conference of Unesco. Eight session. Montevideo (Uruguay), 1954. Resolution adopted on December 10th, 1954, in the eighteenth plenary-meeting.

Having discussed the report of the Director-General on the international petition in favour of Esperanto (8C/PRG/3),

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