Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the Work of Its 37th 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 37th session, published in 2004.

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

Commends the Commission for the completion and adoption of its Legislative Guide on Insolvency Law;³

³Ibid., chap. III.

Also commends the Commission for the progress made in the work on a draft convention on electronic contracting, on a draft instrument on transport law, on a draft legislative guide on secured transactions and on model legislative provisions on interim measures in international commercial arbitration, and for the Commission’s decision to undertake a revision of its Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services⁴ to reflect new practices, including those resulting from the increasing use of electronic communications in public procurement;⁵

⁴Ibid., Forty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 17 and corrigendum (A/49/17 and Corr.1), annex I.

⁵Ibid., Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/59/17), chap. VIII, paras. 81 and 82.

Endorses the efforts and initiatives of the Commission, as the core legal body within the United Nations system in the field of international trade law, aimed at increasing coordination of and cooperation on legal activities of international and regional organizations active in the field of international trade law, and in this regard appeals to relevant international and regional organizations to coordinate their legal activities with those of the Commission, to avoid duplication of efforts and to promote efficiency, consistency and coherence in the modernization and harmonization of international trade law;

Reaffirms the importance, in particular for developing countries, of the work of the Commission concerned with training and legislative technical assistance in the field of international trade law, and in this connection:

Welcomes the Commission’s initiatives towards expanding, through its secretariat, its training and legislative technical assistance programme;

Expresses its appreciation to the Commission for organizing seminars and briefing missions in Azerbaijan, Colombia, Serbia and Montenegro, the Sudan, Thailand, Venezuela and Yemen;

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 carrying out training and legislative technical assistance activities, in particular in developing countries;

Reiterates its appeal to the United Nations Development Programme and other bodies responsible for development assistance, such as the World Bank and regional development banks, as well as to Governments in their bilateral aid programmes, to support the training and legislative technical assistance programme of the Commission and to cooperate and coordinate their activities with those of the Commission;

Takes note with regret that, since the previous session of the Commission, no contributions have been made to the trust fund established to provide travel assistance to developing countries that are members of the Commission, at their request and in consultation with the Secretary-General, stresses the need for contributions to the trust fund in order to increase expert representation from developing countries at sessions of the Commission and its working groups, and reiterates its appeal to Governments, the relevant bodies of the United Nations system, organizations, institutions and individuals to make voluntary contributions to the trust fund;

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-ninth 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;

Recalls its resolutions on partnerships between the United Nations and non-State actors, in particular the private sector,⁶ and in this regard welcomes the Commission’s consideration of the means of actively engaging non-State actors in its work,⁷ and encourages the Commission to further explore different approaches to the use of partnerships with non-State actors in the implementation of its mandate, in particular in the area of training and technical assistance, in accordance with the applicable principles and guidelines and in cooperation and coordination with other relevant offices of the Secretariat;

⁶Resolutions 55/215, 56/76 and 58/129.

⁷See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/59/17), chap. XV, sect. A.

Approves, in conformity with its resolutions on documentation-related matters, which, in particular, emphasize that any reduction in the length of documents should not adversely affect either the quality of the presentation or the substance of the documents,⁸ the conclusions reached by the Commission in paragraphs 124 to 128 of its report1 regarding the imposition of page limits on its documentation, and requests the Secretary-General to bear in mind the particular characteristics of the mandate and work of the Commission in implementing page limits with respect to the documentation of the Commission;

⁸Resolutions 57/283 B, section III, para. 29, and 58/250, section III, paras. 2 and 17.

Also approves the conclusions of the Commission in paragraph 130 of its report regarding the need for the continuing provision of summary records of its meetings relating to the formulation of normative texts;

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;

Notes that 2005 will mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods⁹ and the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law,¹⁰ and in this regard welcomes initiatives being undertaken to organize conferences and similar events to provide a forum for assessing the experience, in particular of courts and arbitral tribunals, with those texts;

⁹United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1489, No. 25567.

¹⁰Official Records of the General Assembly, Fortieth Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/40/17), annex I.

Expresses its appreciation for the preparation of a digest of case law on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, intended to assist in the dissemination of information on the Convention and promote its adoption, use and uniform interpretation, and for the progress of work on a digest of case law relating to the Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration.

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