UN and Esperanto

Can the UN pass a resolution declaring Esperanto as an international language and all countries boost its popularity as a second language somewhere in the 1950s-1970s?
 
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Eble. If the idea was really pushed in the back-rooms as a way of allowing countries which don't speak the official UN languages to participate more fully, then such countries might vote in favor of the resolution even if the larger countries vote against. There was a significant amount of support for Esperanto in many countries, in Eastern Europe for example, and smaller countries might have been convinced, as I said, by lobbying.

What is the extent of the resolution, though? It might have even been possible to add Esperanto to the official UN languages, requiring real-time translation and translation of documents. I don't think an actual mandate to teach Esperanto in schools (and to adults) would be possible, although the use of the language at the UN would encourage people to learn it.

Esperanto is, of course, not a difficult language to learn and it's a very easy language to translate into. (My problem with it is that I already know three of the source languages to a fair extent -- English, French and German -- and I have to guess which of those languages the Esperanto word comes from.) At the opposite end of the spectrum, the UN could simply encourage the use of Esperanto to a greater extent than it did OTL (UNESCO did, in OTL, endorse it to some extent).

I'm not sure how likely adding Esperanto to the list of official languages would be, but it would be, in general, a good thing for the world.
 
I'm not sure. If nothing else, I suspect that the former colonies won't like it, since declaring a Romance language to be "international and universal" will simply serve to reinforce the idea that Western Europe (and its children like the US) are the only places that matter.

EDIT: Also, the UN can't pass a resolution mandating that all countries do much of anything at all, let alone that they teach something in their schools.
 
I'm not sure. If nothing else, I suspect that the former colonies won't like it, since declaring a Romance language to be "international and universal" will simply serve to reinforce the idea that Western Europe (and its children like the US) are the only places that matter.

EDIT: Also, the UN can't pass a resolution mandating that all countries do much of anything at all, let alone that they teach something in their schools.
I know,they can recommend them to learn it,but the UN can make it it's own language(the language that they use in documents for example,because they are not a country.)
 
It would certainly give a much wider prominence to the Esperantist movement and keep it much more relevent.

The League of Nations actually had a movement to adopt Esperanto as one of their languages, so I suppose the UN could have a movement like that which actually succeeds.
 
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