India for Hindi as UN language: Minister

[Harold F. Schiffman]

From: HindustanTimes.com


India for Hindi as UN language: Minister

New Delhi, August 19, 2006

India has said that Hindi should be included as one of the languages used
by the United Nations as it was spoken by a substantial percentage of the
world population. Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma said
that an international Hindi conference would be held in New York early
next year as part of efforts to popularise further the language in the
world arena. "Hindi should be included in the United Nations. A
substantial percentage of the world population uses this language," Sharma
said in New Delhi on Friday evening after launching the Hindi website of
the Ministry of External Affairs.

With emphasis being laid on greater use of Hindi, MEA launched the website
in this language as part of an effort to make available the country's
foreign policy to a much wider populace.

The Hindi website www.mea.gov.in, developed by the National Informatics
Centre (NIC), will initially be a mirror image of the Ministry's English
version and its further development is expected later. Sharma said the
Hindi website will help in creating greater awareness among the people
about the government's policy and perspectives on important foreign affair
issues. "It will go a long way in generating interests in Indian
democracy, literature, culture, arts and socio-economic development," he
said. The MEA is already engaged actively in implementation of the
Official Language Policy of the government and is playing an important
role in promotion of Hindi abroad.

Regional Hindi conferences are held every year in different countries and
in the current year, these conclaves have been held in Australia, Abu
Dhabi and Tokyo.


http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1772214,0008.htm

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