A/RES/69/116 United Nations Distr.: General 18 December 2014 General Assembly Sixty-ninth session Agenda item 76 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 10 December 2014 [on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/69/496)] 69/116. United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration 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 in the interests of all peoples, in particular those of developing countries, in the extensive development of international trade, Recalling also its resolution 68/109 of 16 December 2013, in which it recommended the use of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Rules on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration 1 and Arbitration Rules (as revised in 2010, with new article 1, paragraph 4, as adopted in 2013),2 Recognizing the need for provisions on transparency in the settlement of treaty-based investor-State disputes to take account of the public interest involved in such arbitrations, Believing that the Rules on Transparency contribute significantly to the establishment of a harmonized legal framework for a fair and efficient settlement of international investment disputes, increase transparency and accountability and promote good governance, Recalling that, at its forty-sixth session, in 2013, the Commission recommended that the Rules on Transparency be applied through appropriate mechanisms to investor-State arbitration initiated pursuant to investment treaties concluded before the coming into effect of the Rules on Transparency, to the extent that such application is consistent with those investment treaties, and that the Commission decided to prepare a convention that was intended to give those States that wished to make the Rules on Transparency applicable to their existing investment treaties _______________ 1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/68/17), chap. III and annex I. 2 Ibid., chap. III and annex II. 14-66937 (E) *1466937* Please recycle

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