Report of the United Nations Commission on International
Trade Law on the work of its forty-seventh session
A/RES/69/115
1.
Takes note with appreciation of the report of the United Nations
Commission on International Trade Law;1
2.
Commends the Commission for the finalization of the draft convention
on transparency in treaty-based investor-State arbitration;2
3.
Notes with appreciation that the secretariat of the Commission has taken
steps to establish and operate the repository of published information under the
Rules on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration (“transparency
repository”), in accordance with article 8 of the Rules on Transparency, as a pilot
project temporarily funded by voluntary contributions,3 and in this regard requests
the Secretary-General to keep the General Assembly informed of developments
regarding the funding and budgetary situation of the transparency repository;
4.
Takes note with interest of the decisions taken by the Commission as
regards its future work and the progress made by the Commission in its work in the
areas of arbitration and conciliation, online dispute resolution, electronic commerce,
insolvency law, security interests and international trade law aimed at reducing the
legal obstacles faced by micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises throughout
their life cycle, endorses the Commission’s decision to compile information on
cloud computing, identity management, the use of mobile devices in electronic
commerce and single window facilities, including by organizing, co-organizing or
participating in colloquiums, workshops and other meetings within available
resources,4 also endorses the Commission’s decision to hold a colloquium and other
events in 2015 to celebrate the thirty-fifth anniversary of the United Nations
Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods within available
resources,5 and commends the efforts undertaken by the Commission to improve the
management of its resources while maintaining and increasing its current levels of
activity, including through avoiding overlap of work and the use of informal
working methods where appropriate, with due regard to the formal negotiation
process;6
5.
Notes with appreciation the projects of the Commission aimed at
promoting the uniform and effective application of the Convention on the
Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the New York
Convention), done at New York on 10 June 1958, 7 including the preparation of a
guide entitled “UNCITRAL Secretariat Guide on the New York Convention”, in
close cooperation with international experts;8
6.
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 at promoting
the rule of law at the national and international levels in this field, and in this regard
appeals to relevant international and regional organizations to coordinate their legal
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2
Ibid., chap. III and annex I.
Ibid., para. 109.
4
Ibid., para. 150.
5
Ibid., para. 255.
6
Ibid., chaps. III–V, VII, VIII and XV.
7
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 330, No. 4739.
8
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/68/17),
chap. III, sect. E; and ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/69/17), para. 117.
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