FINAL ACT OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON CONTRACTS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SALE OF GOODS
1. The General Assembly of the United Nations, having considered chapter II of the report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade aw on tie work of its eleventh session in 1978, which contained a draft Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, decided, by resolution 33/93 of 16 December 1978, that an international conference of plenipotentiaries should be convened in 1980 at the location of the International Trade Law Branch of the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations, or at any other suitable place for which the Secretary-General might receive an invitation, to consider the draft Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods prepared by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law and to embody the results of its work in an international convention and such other instruments as the conference might deem appropriate. The General Assembly also decided that the
conference should consider the desirability of preparing a Protocol to the Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods, adopted at New York on 14 June 1974, which would harmonize the provisions of that Convention with those of the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods as it might be adopted by the conference.
2. The United Nations Conference on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods was held at Vienna, Austria, from 10 March to 11 April 1980.
3. Representatives of sixty-two States participated in the Conference, namely, representatives of: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burma, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, German Democratic Republic, Germany, Federal Republic of, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Uruguay, Yugoslavia and Zaire.
4. One State, Venezuela, sent an observer to the Conference.
5.
The General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to invite representatives of organizations that have received a standing invitation from the General Assembly to participate in the sessions and the work of all international conferences convened under its auspices, in the capacity of observers, to participate in the Conference in that capacity in accordance with General Assembly resolutions 3237 (XXIX) of 22 November 1974 and 31/152 of 20 December 1976; to invite representatives of the national liberation movementa recognized in its region by the Organization of African Unity to participate in the Conference in the capacity of observers in accordance with General Assembly resolution 3280 (XXIX) of 10 December 1974; to invite the United Nations Council for Namibia to participate in the Conference in accordance with paragraph 3 of General Assembly resolution 32/9 E of 4 November 1977, and to invite the specialized agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency, as well as interested
organs of the United Nations and interested international organizations, to be represented at the Conference by observers. The following intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations accepted this invitation and were represented by observers at the Conference:
Specialized agencies
World Bank
Other intergovernmental organizations
Bank for International Settlements
Central Office for International Railway Transport
Council of Europe
European Economic Community
Hague Conference on Private International Law
International Institute for the Unification of Private Law
Non-governmental organizations
6.
International Chamber of Commerce
The Conference elected Mr. Gyula Eörsi (Hungary) as President.
7. The Conference elected as Vice-Presidents the representatives of the following States: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Egypt, German Democratic Republic, Germany, Federal Republic of, Greece, Kenya, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Pakistan, Feru, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Zaire.
8. The following Committees were set up by the Conferenc^*
General Committee
Chairman:
Members:
The President of the Conference
The President and Vice-Presidents of the Conference, and the Chairmen of the First and Second Committees
First Committee
Chairman:
Vice-Chairman:
Rapporteur:
Mr. Roland Loewe (Auz'ria)
Mr. Peter K. Mathanjuki (Kenya)
Hr. Shinichiro Michida (Japan)
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Second Committee
Chairman:
Vice-Chairman:
Rapporteur:
Drafting Committee
Chairman:
Vice-Chairman:
Rapporteur:
Members:
Mr. Roberto Luis Mantilla-Molina (Mexico)
Mr. Mikola P. Makarevitch (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic)
Mr. Venkataramiah Kuchibhotla (India)
Mr. Warren Khoo Leang Huat (Singapore)
Mr. Leif Sevon (Finland)
Mr. Ludvik Kopać (Czechoslovakia)
Brazil, Chile, China, Czechoslovakia, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Republic of Korea,
Singapore, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America and Zaire
Credentials Committee
9.
Chairman:
Members:
Mr. Peter K. Mathanjuki (Kenya)
Belgium, China, Ecuador, Libyan Arab
Jamahiriya, Kenya, Mexico, Pakistan, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and United States of America
The Secretary-General of the United Nations was represented by Mr. Erik Suy, The Legal Counsel. Mr. Willem Vis, Chief of the International Trade Law Branch, Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations, was Executive Secretary.
10.
The General Assembly, by resolution 33/93 of 16 December 1978 convening the Conference, referred to the Conference, as the basis for its considerations, the draft Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods approved by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, together with a commentary (A/CONF.97/5), the text of draft provisions concerning implementation, declarations, reservations and other final clauses prepared by the Secretary-General (A/CONF.97/6), a report on the relationship of the draft Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods to the Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods prepared by the Secretary-General (A/CONF.97/7), the comme-ts and proposals by Governments
and international organizations on the draft Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (A/CONF.97/8 and Add.1-7) and an analysis of these comments and proposals prepared by the Secretary-General (A/CONF.97/9).
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