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* [Reproduced from U.N. Document A/43/820 of November H 21, 1988 pp. 2-42. This document contains the Report of the Sixth Committee on the Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the Work of its Twenty-First Session. The Sixth Committee recommended to the General Assembly the adoption of the resolution and convention, and the General Assembly did so without vote on December 9, 1988. As of January 20, 1989, the convention had not yet been opened to signature.
[The Introductory Note was prepared for International Legal Materials by John A. Spanogle, Professor of Law State University of New York at Buffalo; Visiting Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law, George Washington University. Professor Spanogle and Professor Willem C. Vis, Professor of Law at Pace University School of Law, are preparing a comprehensive study on the origin and negotiating history of the convention.]
2/ Official Records of the General Assembly. Forty-second Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/43/17), para. 304.
3/ Ibid., annex I.