At its 93rd plenary meeting, on 5 August 2004, the General Assembly, at the request of France, on behalf of the States members of the Intergovernmental Agency of La Francophonie,23 decided to defer consideration of the item entitled “Multilingualism” and to include it in the draft agenda
20 A/58/L.68.
21 The first phase of the Summit was held in Geneva from 10 to 12 December 2003; the second phase is to be held in Tunis from 16 to
18 November 2005.
22 A/58/863.
23 A/58/862. of its fifty-ninth session, on the understanding that the biennial character of the item would not be called into question and the item would be considered next at the sixty-first session.
