Institutions |
Languages |
Amnesty International |
Portuguese, Arabic, English, French and Spanish |
Antarctic Treaty Secretariat (ATS) |
English, French, Spanish and Russian |
Bank for International Settlements (BIS) |
English, French, German and Spanish |
Commonwealth of Nations |
English |
Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) |
Portuguese |
FIFA |
Arabic, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish |
Holy See |
Latin (official), Italian (administrative and diplomatic) and French (diplomatic) |
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) |
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish |
International Criminal Court (ICC) |
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish (English and French are working languages)[4] |
International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) |
Arabic, English, French and Spanish |
International Energy Agency (IEA) |
English |
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) |
English, French and Spanish |
International Labour Organization (ILO/OIT) |
English, French and Spanish |
International Monetary Fund (IMF) |
English (interpretation into Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish) |
International Olympic Committee (IOC/CIO) |
French and English (with simultaneous interpretation provided for Arabic, German, Russian, and Spanish) |
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) |
English, French and Russian |
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) |
English, French and Spanish |
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) |
English, French and Spanish |
Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) |
French and English (with conferences also having simultaneous interpretation into Arabic and Spanish) |
Latin Union (activities have been suspended since 2012) |
Catalan, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian |
Médecins Sans Frontières |
Arabic, English, French, Portuguese and Spanish |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD/OCDE) |
English and French |
Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) |
French |
Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) |
Spanish and Portuguese |
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC/OCI) |
Arabic, English and French |
Red Cross |
Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese and German |
Rotary International |
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish |
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) |
English, French, and Spanish |
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) |
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish |
United Nations (UN/ONU) |
Under the Charter, the official languages are Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish as well as Arabic which was added in 1973. See also: Official languages of the United Nations. |
Universal Postal Union (UPU) |
French (official) and English (working). Other languages translated: Arabic, Chinese, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish |
World Bank (WB) |
English (with conferences also having simultaneous interpretation into Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) |
World Customs Organization |
English, French, and Spanish (with translation offered into Arabic and Russian) |
World Health Organization (WHO) |
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. |
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) |
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Korean |
World Trade Organization (WTO/OMC) |
English, French and Spanish |
African Development Bank |
English, French |
African Union (AU/UA) |
Arabic, French, English, Portuguese, Spanish and Swahili |
Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA) |
Arabic |
Arab League |
Arabic |
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) |
English |
Asian Development Bank (ADB) |
English |
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) |
English |
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) |
English (working language), Burmese, Filipino, Indonesian, Khmer, Lao, Malay, Mandarin, Tamil, Thai and Vietnamese[5] |
Benelux |
Dutch and French[6] |
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) |
English, French, Dutch and Spanish |
Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) |
English |
Central American Common Market (CACM) |
Spanish |
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) |
English, French and Portuguese |
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) |
Russian |
Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) |
Arabic |
Council of Europe |
English and French |
East African Community (EAC) |
English, French and Swahili |
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS/CEDEAO) |
English, French and Portuguese |
Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) |
French, Portuguese and Spanish |
Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) |
Russian |
Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) |
Russian |
European Space Agency (ESA) |
English, French and German |
European Union (EU/UE) |
24 official languages with three of these — English, French and German — being working languages of some internal EU bodies such as the European Commission |
Group of Seven (G7), formerly the Group of Eight (G8) |
English, French, German, Italian and Japanese |
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) |
Arabic |
Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) |
English |
Islamic Development Bank (IDB) |
Arabic, with French and English as working languages |
Mercosur/Mercosul |
Guarani, Portuguese and Spanish. |
New Development Bank (NDB) |
English |
Nordic Investment Bank (NDB) |
English |
Nordic Council (NC) |
Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish (working languages) |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO/OTAN) |
English and French. |
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) |
English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish |
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) |
English |
Organization of American States (OAS/OEA) |
Spanish, English, Portuguese and French. See also: Official languages of the Organization of American States |
Pacific Islands Forum |
English |
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) |
Chinese and Russian. |
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) |
English |
South Pacific Commission (SPC) |
English and French |
Southern African Development Community (SADC) |
English, French and Portuguese (working languages)[7] |
Union of South American Nations (Unasul-Unasur) |
Dutch, English, Portuguese and Spanish |
United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA; superseded NAFTA) |
English, Spanish and French. |