Charter of the French Language mission, powers, and organization. Title IV establishes the Conseil supérieur de la langue française (Superior Council of the French language). Title V and VI define penal provisions and sanctions and transitional and miscellaneous provisions. To achieve the goal of making French the "normal and everyday language of work, instruction, communication, commerce and business" and ensure the respect of French Quebecers' language rights, the Charter contains a number of key provisions and various regulations. In the first article of the Charter, French is declared the official language of Quebec. The French language was previously declared the sole official language of Quebec
French language trade. Since the Fall of Saigon and the opening of a unified Vietnam's economy, French has gradually been effectively displaced as the main foreign language of choice by English. French nevertheless maintains its colonial legacy by being spoken as a second language by the elderly and elite populations and is presently being revived in higher education and continues to be a diplomatic language in Vietnam. All three countries are official members of the OIF. A former French mandate, Lebanon designates Arabic as the sole official language, while a special law regulates cases when French can be publicly used. Article 11