TNAG-2303-FCO40-3332-Hong-Kong-International-Rights-and-Obligations-(IRO)-Sub-Gro-1991 — Page 24

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IRO/65/91

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Handed over to the Chinese side on 13.11.91

Protocol

on Arbitration clauses [Geneva Protocol 19231

on

Convention

the execution of foreign arbitral awards

[Geneva Convention 1927]

Convention

on the recognition and enforcement of

foreign arbitral awards [New York Convention 1958]

General

་་

1.

Arbitration agreements play a significant role in

international commerce.

agreements are recognised

made pursuant to such

enforced internationally.

It is essential that arbitration

internationally and that awards

agreements are both recognised and

In the case of Hong Kong, these

abovementioned three

objects are achieved by the

international instruments (texts at Annex A).

Geneva Protocol ·

2.

This

Protocol

recognise

the validity

requires awards

made

agreements

obliges Contracting States to

of arbitration agreements and

pursuant

to

such arbitration

to be enforced in the territory of the state in

which they were made. In other words, the Geneva Protocol

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