A/RES/58/75. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2003

• Resolution Number: A/RES/58/75
• Year: 2003
• Session: 58th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/58/75

General Assembly Distr.: General

8 January 2004

Fifty-eighth session

Agenda item 151

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 9 December 2003

[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/58/513)]

58/75. Report of the United Nations Commission on International

Trade Law on the work of its thirty-sixth session

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its resolution 2205 (XXI) of 17 December 1966, by which it

established 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 belief

that the progressive modernization and harmonization 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 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,

Having considered

the report of the Commission on its thirty-sixth session,

1

Concerned

that

activities undertaken by other bodies in the field of

international trade law without adequate 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

harmonization of international trade law,

Reaffirming

the mandate of the Commission, as the core legal body within the

United Nations system in the field of international trade law, to coordinate legal

activities in this field, in particular to avoid duplication of efforts, including among

organizations formulating rules of international trade, and to promote efficiency,

consistency and coherence in the modernization and harmonization of international

trade law, and to continue, through its secretariat, to maintain close cooperation with

other international organs and organizations, including regional organizations,

active in the field of international trade law, as stated in General Assembly

resolution 50/47 of 11 December 1995,

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1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/58/17).