A/RES/76/108
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 80
Report of the United Nations Commission on International
Trade Law on the work of its fifty-fourth session
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 9 December 2021
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/76/471, para. 13)]
76/108.
Expedited Arbitration Rules of the United Nations Commission on
International Trade Law
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 2205 (XXI) of 17 December 1966, by which it
established the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law with a
mandate to further the progressive harmonization and unification of the law of
international trade and in that respect to bear in mind the interests of all peoples, in
particular those of developing countries, in the extensive development of international
trade,
Recalling also its resolution 31/98 of 15 December 1976 recommending the use
of the Arbitration Rules of the United Nations Commission on International Trade
Law 1 and its resolution 65/22 of 6 December 2010 recommending the use of the
Arbitration Rules as revised in 2010, 2
Mindful of the value of arbitration as a method of settling disputes that may arise
in the context of international commercial relations,
Noting the value of expedited arbitration as a streamlined and simplified
procedure for settling disputes that arise in the context of international commercial
relations within a shortened time frame, and its increased use in in ternational and
domestic commercial practice for parties to reach a final resolution of the dispute in
a cost- and time-effective manner,
Aware of the need to balance the efficiency of the arbitral proceedings and the
rights of the disputing parties to due process and fair treatment,
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2
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-first Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/31/17),
chap. V, sect. C.
Ibid., Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/65/17), annex I.
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