A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/49/54 17 February 1995 Forty-ninth session Agenda item 138 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/49/739)] 49/54. Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 2205 (XXI) of 17 December 1966, by which it created 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, Noting that procurement constitutes a large portion of public expenditure in most States, Recalling the completion and adoption by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law at its twenty-sixth session of the Model Law on Procurement of Goods and Construction, 1/ Recalling also the decision of the Commission at its twenty-sixth session to draw up model legislative provisions on procurement of services, while leaving intact the Model Law on Procurement of Goods and Construction of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, _______________ 1/ Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 17, (A/48/17), annex I. 95-76783 /...