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(b)
Urges Governments, the relevant United Nations organs,
organizations, institutions and individuals to make voluntary contributions to
the trust fund for the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law
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;
(c)
Appeals to the United Nations Development Programme and other
United Nations bodies responsible for development assistance to support the
training and technical assistance programme of the Commission and to cooperate
and coordinate their activities with those of the Commission;
5.
Requests the Secretary-General, in order to ensure full
participation by all Member States in the sessions of the Commission and its
working groups, to establish a separate trust fund for the Commission to grant
travel assistance to developing countries that are members of the Commission,
at their request and in consultation with the Secretary-General;
6.
Decides, in order to ensure full participation by all Member
States in the sessions of the Commission and its working groups, to continue
its consideration in the competent Main Committee during the forty-eighth
session of the General Assembly on granting travel assistance, within existing
resources, to the least developed countries that are members of the
Commission, at their request and in consultation with the Secretary-General;
7.
Expresses its appreciation to the Commission for organizing the
Fifth Symposium on International Trade Law of the United Nations Commission on
International Trade Law at Vienna from 12 to 16 July 1993 during its twentysixth session;
8.
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 invites States that
have not yet done so to consider signing, ratifying or acceding to these
conventions;
9.
Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report on the
implementation of paragraphs 5 and 6 above to the General Assembly at its
forty-ninth session.
73rd plenary meeting
9 December 1993