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concerned to ensure that states which became

of 1923 was

parties to

the

Protocol

would support

international

commercial arbitration at the beginning and at the end of

At the beginning of the process,

the arbitral

process.

Contracting

States

would

ensure that parties

to

an

arbitration

agreement

resolved their disputes

by

arbitration,

rather than by resorting to the courts; and at

the

end

of

the arbitral

recognition

and

enforcement

to

awards

they process,

grant

made in their own

would

territory.

Geneva Convention

3.

The purpose of this Convention was to provide for

enforcement within the territories of

the recognition and

Contracting States of

agreements

covered

awards made pursuant to arbitration

by the Geneva Protocol of 1923. The

Geneva Protocol of 1923 had only

provided

for the

enforcement of Protocol awards in the territory of the

state in which they were made. The Geneva Convention of

further; it provided that an award would be

1927 went

recognised

as

binding and

would

enforced be

in

the

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