Report of the United Nations Commission on International
Trade Law on the work of its forty-seventh session
A/RES/69/115
Commission, and requests the Secretary-General to keep the General Assembly
informed of developments regarding the establishment of regional centres, in
particular their funding and budgetary situation;10
10. Appeals to Governments, the relevant bodies of the United Nations
system, organizations, institutions and individuals to make voluntary contributions
to the Trust Fund established to provide travel assistance to developing countries
that are members of the Commission, at their request and in consultation with the
Secretary-General, in order to enable renewal of the provision of that assistance and
to increase expert representation from developing countries at sessions of the
Commission and its working groups, necessary to build local expertise and
capacities in those countries to put in place a regulatory and enabling environment
for business, trade and investment;
11. Decides, in order to ensure full participation of all Member States in the
sessions of the Commission and its working groups, to continue, in the competent
Main Committee during the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly, its
consideration of granting travel assistance to the least developed countries that are
members of the Commission, at their request and in consultation with the
Secretary-General;
12. Endorses the conviction of the Commission that the implementation and
effective use of modern private law standards in international trade are essential for
advancing good governance, sustained economic development and the eradication of
poverty and hunger and that the promotion of the rule of law in commercial
relations should be an integral part of the broader agenda of the United Nations to
promote the rule of law at the national and international levels, including through
the Rule of Law Coordination and Resource Group, supported by the Rule of Law
Unit in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General;
13. Notes the rule of law briefing and the rule of law panel discussion held at
the forty-seventh session of the Commission and the comments transmitted by the
Commission highlighting its role in promoting the rule of law, in particular through
facilitating access to justice, pursuant to paragraph 14 of General Assembly
resolution 68/116;11
14. Notes with satisfaction that, in paragraph 8 of the declaration of the highlevel meeting of the General Assembly on the rule of law at the national and
international levels, adopted by consensus as resolution 67/1 of 24 September 2012,
Member States recognized the importance of fair, stable and predictable legal
frameworks for generating inclusive, sustainable and equitable development,
economic growth and employment, generating investment and facilitating
entrepreneurship and, in this regard, commended the work of the Commission in
modernizing and harmonizing international trade law and that, in paragraph 7 of the
declaration, Member States expressed their conviction that the rule of law and
development were strongly interrelated and mutually reinforcing;
15. Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General, in conformity with
resolutions of the General Assembly on documentation-related matters,12 which, in
particular, emphasize that any invitation to limit, where appropriate, the length of
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10
Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/68/17), chap. XIII.
Ibid., chap. XIV.
12
Resolutions 52/214, sect. B, 57/283 B, sect. III, and 58/250, sect. III.
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