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6.
Takes note with regret that, since the previous session of the
Commission, no contributions have been made 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,
stresses the need for contributions to the trust fund in order to increase expert
representation from developing countries at sessions of the Commission and its
working groups, and reiterates its appeal to Governments, the relevant bodies of the
United Nations system, organizations, institutions and individuals to make voluntary
contributions to the trust fund;
Decides, in order to ensure full participation by all Member States in the
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sessions of the Commission and its working groups, to continue, in the competent
Main Committee during the fifty-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 SecretaryGeneral;
Recalls its resolutions on partnerships between the United Nations and
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non-State actors, in particular the private sector, 5 and in this regard welcomes the
Commission’s consideration of the means of actively engaging non-State actors in
its work, 6 and encourages the Commission to further explore different approaches to
the use of partnerships with non-State actors in the implementation of its mandate,
in particular in the area of training and technical assistance, in accordance with the
applicable principles and guidelines and in cooperation and coordination with other
relevant offices of the Secretariat;
Approves, in conformity with its resolutions on documentation-related
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matters, which, in particular, emphasize that any reduction in the length of
documents should not adversely affect either the quality of the presentation or the
substance of the documents, 7 the conclusions reached by the Commission in
paragraphs 124 to 128 of its report1 regarding the imposition of page limits on its
documentation, and requests the Secretary-General to bear in mind the particular
characteristics of the mandate and work of the Commission in implementing page
limits with respect to the documentation of the Commission;
10. Also approves the conclusions of the Commission in paragraph 130 of its
report regarding the need for the continuing provision of summary records of its
meetings relating to the formulation of normative texts;
11. 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, urges States that have not yet done so to
consider signing, ratifying or acceding to those conventions;
12. Notes that 2005 will mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of
the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 8
and the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Model Law on International
Commercial Arbitration of the United Nations Commission on International Trade
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Resolutions 55/215, 56/76 and 58/129.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/59/17),
chap. XV, sect. A.
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Resolutions 57/283 B, section III, para. 29, and 58/250, section III, paras. 2 and 17.
8
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1489, No. 25567.
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