Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the Work of Its 33rd Session

A/RES/55/151View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 158 Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its 33rd session, published in 2001.

What other versions does this mandate have?

11 versions · 1989–2020

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

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
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

What subjects does this mandate have?

17 subjects

Arbitral Awards Conferences Cooperation Between Organizations Development Assistance International Commercial Arbitration International Trade Law Least Developed Countries Physical Infrastructure Private Sector Programme Implementation Questionnaires Receivables Financing Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Technical Cooperation Training Programmes Travel Costs Treaties

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18 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its thirty-third session;1

Commends the Commission for the work on privately financed infrastructure projects, which culminated in the adoption of the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Privately Financed Infrastructure Projects,³ as well as the important progress made in its work on receivables financing;

³Ibid., para. 372.

Appeals to Governments that have not yet done so to reply to the questionnaire circulated by the Secretariat in relation to the legal regime governing the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and, in particular, to the legislative implementation of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, done at New York on 10 June 1958;⁴

⁴United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 330, No. 4739.

Invites States to nominate persons to work with the private foundation established to encourage assistance to the Commission from the private sector;

Reaffirms the mandate of the Commission, as the core legal body within the United Nations system in the field of international trade law, to coordinate legal activities in this field and, in this connection:

Calls upon all bodies of the United Nations system and invites other international organizations to bear in mind the mandate of the Commission and the need to avoid duplication of effort and to promote efficiency, consistency and coherence in the unification and harmonization of international trade law;

Recommends that the Commission, through its secretariat, continue to maintain close cooperation with the other international organs and organizations, including regional organizations, active in the field of international trade law;

Also reaffirms the importance, in particular for developing countries, of the work of the Commission concerned with training and technical assistance in the field of international trade law, such as assistance in the preparation of national legislation based on legal texts of the Commission;

Expresses the desirability for increased efforts by the Commission, in sponsoring seminars and symposia, to provide such training and technical assistance, and, in this connection:

Expresses its appreciation to the Commission for organizing seminars and briefing missions in Brazil, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar, Peru, the Russian Federation and South Africa;

Expresses its appreciation to the Governments whose contributions enabled the seminars and briefing missions to take place, and appeals to Governments, the relevant bodies of the United Nations system, organizations, institutions and individuals to make voluntary contributions to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Trust Fund for Symposia and, where appropriate, to the financing of special projects, and otherwise to assist the secretariat of the Commission in financing 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;

Appeals to the United Nations Development Programme and other bodies responsible for development assistance, such as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, as well as to Governments in their bilateral aid programmes, to support the training and technical assistance programme of the Commission and to cooperate and coordinate their activities with those of the Commission;

Appeals to Governments, the relevant bodies of the United Nations system, organizations, institutions and individuals, in order to ensure full participation by all Member States in the sessions of the Commission and its working groups, to make voluntary contributions to the trust fund for travel assistance to developing countries that are members of the Commission, at their request and in consultation with the Secretary-General;

Decides, in order to ensure full participation by all Member States in the sessions of the Commission and its working groups, to continue, in the competent Main Committee during the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly, its consideration of granting travel assistance to the least developed countries that are members of the Commission, at their request and in consultation with the Secretary-General;

Requests the Secretary-General to strengthen the secretariat of the Commission within the bounds of the resources available so as to ensure and enhance the effective implementation of the programme of the Commission;

Stresses the importance of bringing into effect the conventions emanating from the work of the Commission for the global unification and harmonization of international trade law, and to this end urges States that have not yet done so to consider signing, ratifying or acceding to those conventions;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session a report on the implications of increasing the membership of the Commission, and invites Member States to submit their views on this issue;

Expresses its appreciation to Gerold Herrmann, Secretary of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law since 1991, who will retire on 31 January 2001, for his outstanding and devoted contribution to the process of unification and harmonization of international trade law in general and to the Commission in particular.

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