A/RES/73/198
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 80
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2018
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/73/496)]
73/198.
United Nations Convention on International Settlement
Agreements Resulting from Mediation
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 2205 (XXI) of 17 December 1966, by which it
established the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law wi th 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 internati onal
trade,
Recalling also its resolution 57/18 of 19 November 2002, in which it noted the
adoption by the Commission of the Model Law on International Commercial
Conciliation 1 and expressed the conviction that the Model Law, together with the
Conciliation Rules of the Commission 2 recommended in its resolution 35/52 of
4 December 1980, contributes significantly to the establishment of a harmonized legal
framework for the fair and efficient settlement of disputes arising in international
commercial relations,
Recognizing the value of mediation as a method of amicably settling dis putes
arising in the context of international commercial relations,
Convinced that the adoption of a convention on international settlement
agreements resulting from mediation that is acceptable to States with different legal,
social and economic systems would complement the existing legal framework on
international mediation and contribute to the development of harmonious
international economic relations,
__________________
1
2
18-22460 (E)
Resolution 57/18, annex.
Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/35/17),
para. 106; see also Yearbook of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law ,
vol. XI: 1980, part three, annex II.
150119
*1822460*