A/RES/55/151. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2000

• Resolution Number: A/RES/55/151
• Session: 55th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/55/151

General Assembly Distr.: General

19 January 2001

Fifty-fifth session

Agenda item 158

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/55/608)]

55/151. Report of the United Nations Commission on

International Trade Law on the work of its thirty-third

session

The Genera l Assembly,

Recalling its resolution 2205 (XXI) of 17 December 1966, by whic h 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,

Reaffirming its conviction that the progressive harmo nization 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

contribute significantly to universal economic cooperation amo ng all States on a

basis of equality, equity and common interest and to the elimination of

discriminatio n in international trade and, thereby, to the well-be ing of all people s,

Emphasizing the need for higher priority to be given to the work of the

Commission in view of the increasing value of the modernization of international

trade law for global economic development and thus for the maintenance of friendly

relations among States,

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 thirty-third

session,

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Concerned that activities undertaken by other bodies of the United Nations

system in the field of international trade law without coordination with the

Commission might lead to undesirable duplication of efforts and would not be in

keeping with the aim of promoting efficiency, consistency and coherence in the

unification and har monization of in ternational trade la w, as stated in its resolution

37/106 of 16 December 1982,

1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/55/17).