A/RES/53/103. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 1998

• Resolution Number: A/RES/53/103
• Year: 1998
• Session: 53rd
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-third Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/53/17).

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A/RES/53/103

26 January 1999

Fifty-third session

Agenda item 151

RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/53/632)]

53/103. Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on

the work of its thirty-first session

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 p rogressive harmonization and unification

of the law of international trade and in that respect to b ear in mind the interests of all peoples, in particular those

of developing countries, in the extensive development of international trade,

Reaffirming its conviction that the progressive harmonization and unification of international trade law, in

reducing or removing legal obstacles to the flow of international trade, especially those affecting the developing

countries, would significantly contribute to universal economic cooperation among all States on a basis of

equality, equity and common interest and to the elimination of discrimination in international trade and, thereby,

to the well-being of all peoples,

Stressing the value of participation by States at all levels of economic development and from different legal

systems in the process of harmonizing and unifying international trade law,

Having considered the report of the Commission on the work of its thirt y-first session,1