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UPDATES: Rotterdam Rules

26/06/2009
UN Commission on International Trade Law to Hold 42nd Session in Vienna, 29 June-17 July 2009

18/05/2009
Albania accedes to United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)

17/02/2009
Armenia accedes to United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)

19/01/2009
Cook Islands accede to United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards

12/12/2008
General Assembly adopts Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea - General Assembly Meeting Coverage (GA/10798)

25/11/2008
Lebanon accedes to the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods

14/11/2008
Sixth Committee recommends General Assembly adoption of the Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its resumed 40th and its 41st sessions

3/11/2008
Rwanda becomes a party to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards

20/10/2008
Links between commercial law reform and "culture of rule of law" stressed in General Assembly's Legal Committee

3/10/2008
Secretary-General appoints Renaud Sorieul as Director, International Trade Law Division, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs and Secretary of UNCITRAL

6/8/2008
Belgium accedes to Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods

7/7/2008
United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopts Draft Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea

4/7/2008
Japan accedes to the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods