A/RES/74/183
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
27 December 2019
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 77
Report of the United Nations Commission on International
Trade Law on the work of its fifty-second session
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/74/423)]
74/183.
Model Legislative Provisions on Public-Private Partnerships
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 58/4 of 31 October 2003, by which it adopted the
United Nations Convention against Corruption, 1
Recalling further its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, by which it adopted
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and its resolution 69/313 of 27 July
2015, by which it endorsed the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International
Conference on Financing for Development,
Convinced that public-private partnerships can play an important role in
improving the provision and sound management of infrastructure and public services
and in supporting government efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals,
Concerned that the inadequacy of the legal framework and a lack of
transparency may discourage investment in infrastructure and public services and lead
to a greater risk of corruption and mismanagement of public funds,
Emphasizing the importance of providing efficient and transparent procedures
for the awarding of contracts for public-private partnerships and of facilitating project
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See also United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2349, No. 42146.
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