In addition to the thousands of civil parties, it involves a 700-page indictment, hundreds of witnesses, thousands of pages of documentary evidence, scores of lawyers in the courtroom and three working languages — Khmer, English and French.
The summer respite is a chance to catch up on the backlog of less pressing papers and reports awaiting translation into the three "working" languages or the 11 "official" languages of the European Union.Coping with that load obliges the European Commission to maintain the largest translation staff in the world, more than 1,500 people handling about 1.2m pages of text a year.
Its purview is mostly limited to three languages the two working languages of the United Nations, English and French, and what the court terms "BCS": Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian. (For crimes committed in Kosovo and Macedonia, the court temporarily introduced Albanian and Macedonian, but English, French, and BCS form its permanent core).The politics of BCS is complex.
Applicants in another language would need to provide a translation into one of these three working languages, but universities, individuals, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations based in the European Union would get these translation costs refunded.
It is one of 24 official and working languages of the European Union, and one of the three working languages of the European Commission.
The French supported him, partly because, being a French speaker educated at the Sorbonne, he promised to restore French in practice to the position it held nominally as one of the UN's two working languages.
Thirty-two lareuagespokenspoken in the 13 districts; four working languages are used [ 1, 2].
Additional file 1 Multilingual abstracts in the five official working languages of the United Nations and Portuguese.
