Anybody knows if this is true ? United Nations' abolishment of Traditional Chinese in 2008?

Question

There is a petition email floating around got a lot of hypes -to say no to United Nations' abolishment of Traditional Chinese in 2008, however, a lot people simply took the word but never ask the question, is this ture ?, somehow I suspect people use a false petition to gain political ground. 2008 happens to be the olympic year. How can we verify this ? UN web site has no information at all.

Answer 1

The use of Traditional Chinese is illegal in Communist China, and is fast disappearing in Taiwan and in overseas Chinese communities.

The UN is not "abolishing" Traditional Chinese - they have simply announced that after 2008 they will no longer print official UN materials in Traditional Chinese, but only in Simplified Chinese.

Richard