A/RES/76/109
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)]
76/109.
Enlargement of the membership 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 inter national 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 3108 (XXVIII) of 12 December 1973, by which it
increased the membership of the Commission from 29 to 36 States, and its resolution
57/20 of 19 November 2002, by which it increased the membership of the
Commission from 36 to 60 States,
Being satisfied with the practice of the Commission of inviting States not
members of the Commission and relevant intergovernmental and international
non-governmental organizations to participate as observers in the sessions of the
Commission and its working groups and to take part in the formulation of texts by the
Commission, as well as with the practice of reaching decisions by consensus without
a formal vote,
Observing that the considerable number of States that have participated as
observers and made valuable contributions to the work of the Commission indicates
that there exists an interest in active participation in the Commission beyond the
current 60 member States, and noting that there is an interest by a s ignificant number
of current member States of the Commission to continue their roles as members and
from other States to become new members,
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