Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 135 Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its 18th session, published in 1986.

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2 subjects

International Commercial Arbitration Model Laws

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Requests the Secretary-General to transmit the text of the Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, together with the travaux preparatoires from the eighteenth session of the Commission, to Governments and to arbitral institutions and other interested bodies, such as chambers of commerce;

Recommends that all States give due consideration to the Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, in view of the desirability of uniformity of the law of arbitral procedures and the specific needs of international commercial arbitration practice.

37 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 330, No. 4739, p. 38.

39 A/40/453 and Add.1-10. 38 United Nations publication, Sales No. E.77.V.6.

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