Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the Work of Its 22nd Session

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 143 Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its 22nd session, published in 1990.

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11 versions · 1989–2020

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/75/133

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2020	A/RES/75/133	Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its 53rd session	3,300	74%Compare
2019	A/RES/74/182	Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its 52nd session	3,070	73%Compare
2019	A/RES/73/197	Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its 51st session	3,259	36%Compare
2011	A/RES/65/21	Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its 43rd session	2,271	64%Compare
2010	A/RES/64/111	Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its 42nd session	2,184	27%Compare

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13 subjects

Arabic Language Budget Contributions Conferences Coordination Within UN System Fellowships International Economic Relations International Sale of Goods International Trade Law National Liberation Movements Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Training Programmes Transport Terminals Treaties

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14 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its twenty-second session;

Reaffirms the mandate of the Commission, as the core legal body within the United Nations system in the field of international trade law, to co-ordinate legal activi ties in this field in order to avoid duplication of effort and to promote efficiency, consistency and coherence in the unification and harmonization of international trade law and, in this connection, recommends that the Commis sion, through its secretariat, should continue to maintain close co-operation with the other international organs and organizations, including regional organizations, active in the field of international trade law;

Calls upon the Commission to continue to take ac count of the relevant provisions of the resolutions con cerning the new international economic order, as adopted by the General Assembly at its sixth32 and seventh33 spe cial sessions;

Expresses its appreciation to the Commission for the valuable work done in preparing a draft convention on the liability of operators of transport terminals in interna tional trade;

Decides that an international conference of plenipo tentiaries shall be convened at Vienna from 2 to 19 April 1991 to consider the draft convention prepared by the Commission and to embody the results of its work in a convention on the liability of operators of transport termi nals in international trade;

Requests the Secretary-General:

To invite all States to participate in the conference;

To invite representatives of organizations that have received a standing invitation from the General Assembly to participate in the sessions and the work of all interna tional conferences convened under its auspices in the capacity of observers to participate in the conference in that capacity, in accordance with Assembly resolutions 3237 (XXIX) of 22 November 1974 and 31/ 152 of 20 December 1976;

To invite representatives of the national liberation movements recognized by the Organization of African Unity in its region to participate in the conference in the capacity of observers in accordance with General Assem bly resolution 3280 (XXIX) of 10 December 1974;

To invite the specialized agencies and the Interna tional Atomic Energy Agency, as well as interested organs of the United Nations and interested international organi zations, to be represented at the conference by observers;

Reaffirms the importance, in particular for develop ing countries, of the work of the Commission concerned with training and assistance in the field of international trade law and the desirability for it to sponsor seminars and symposia, in particular those organized on a regional basis, to promote such training and assistance, and, in this connection:

Expresses its appreciation to the Commission for organizing the symposium on international trade law held in conjunction with the twenty-second session of the Com mission and to the Governments whose contributions en abled the symposium to take place;

Invites Governments, the relevant United Nations organs, organizations, institutions and individuals to make voluntary contributions to the United Nations Com mission on International Trade Law symposia and, where appropriate, to the financing of special projects, and other wise to assist the secretariat of the Commission in financ ing and organizing seminars and symposia, in particular in developing countries, and in the award of fellowships to candidates from developing countries to enable them to participate in such seminars and symposia;

Repeats its invitation to those States that have not yet done so to consider signing, ratifying or acceding to the c_onventions elaborated under the auspices of the Com m1ss10n;

Approves the initiative of the Commission34 to have 9. prepared an official Arabic language version of the Con-

vention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods, of 14 June 197 4, 35 as amended by the Protocol of 11 April 1980. 36

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32 Resolutions 3201 (S-Vl) and 3202 (S-VI)

33 Resolution 3362 (S-VII). 30 Ibid., Forty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/44/17).

14 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-ji>Urth Ses.,ion, 31 Ibid., annex I.

Supplement No. 1 7 (A/44117), ,·hap. VIII.

ANNEX International Convention against the Recruitment, Use,

Financing and Training of Mercenaries

The States Parties to the present Convention,

Reaffirming the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and in the Declaration on Principles oflnternational Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations,9 Being aware of the recruitment, use, financing and training of merce naries for activities which violate principles of international law, such as those of sovereign equality, political independence, territorial integrity of States and self-determination of peoples,

Affirming that the recruitment, use, financing and training of merce naries should be considered as offences of grave concern to all States and

35 Official Records of the United Nations Conference on Prescription (Limitation) in the International Sale of Goods, New York, 20 May-14 June 1974 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.74.V.8), p. 101.

36 Official Records of the United Nations Conference on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, Vienna, JO March-I I April /980(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.82.V.5), p. 191.

37 Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 43 and corrigendum (A/44/43 and Corr.I), sects. 11.C and Ill.

38 A/C.6/44/L.9, annex. that any person committing any of thes6-0ffences should be either prose cuted or extradited,

Convinced of the necessity to develop and enhance international co operation among States for the prevention, prosecution and punishment of such offences,

Expressing concern at new unlawful international activities linking drug traffickers and mercenaries in the perpetration of violent actions which undermine the constitutional order of States,

Also convinced that the adoption of a convention against the recruit ment, use, financing and training of mercenaries would contribute to the eradication of these nefarious activities and thereby to the observance of the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter,

Cognizant that matters not regulated by such a convention continue to be governed by the rules and principles of international law,

Have agreed as follows:

Article 1 For the purposes nf the present Convention,

A mercenary 1s any person who:

(a) Is specially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in an armed conflict;

(b) Is motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of similar rank and functions in the armed forces of that party;

( d) Is not a member of the armed forces of a party to the conflict; and

(e) Has not been sent by a State which is not a party to the conflict on official duty as a member of its armed forces.

A mercenary is also any person who, in any other situation:

(a) Is specially recruited locally or abroad for the purpose of par ticipating in a concerted act of violence aimed at:

(i) Overthrowing a Government or otherwise undermining the constitutional order of a State; or (ii)

Undermining the territorial integrity of a State;

(b) Is motivated to take part therein essentially by the desire for sig nificant private gain and is prompted by the promise or payment of material compensation;

(d) Has not been sent by a State on official duty; and ( e)

Is not a member of the armed forces of the State on whose terri tory the act is undertaken.

Article 2 Any person who recruits, uses, finances or trains mercenaries, as de fined in article 1 of the present Convention, commits an offence for the purposes of the Convention.

Article 3 I.

A mercenary, as defined in article I of the present Convention, who participates directly in hostilities or in a concerted act of violence, as the case may be. commits an offence for the purposes of the Convention.

Nothing in this article limits the scope of application of article 4 of the present Convention.

Article 4 An offence is committed by any person who:

(a) Attempts to commit one of the offences set forth in the present Convention;

(b) ls the accomplice of a person who commits or attempts to com m,1 any of the offences set forth in the present Convention.

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