". UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ONINTERNATIONAL TRADELAW Twenty-third session NewYork,25June- 6July1990Distr. GENERAL A/CN.9/335 3May1990 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH TRAINING ANDASSISTANCE NotebytheSecretariat 1. Atthetwentieth session oftheCommission (1987)itwas"notedthat training andassistance wasanimportant activity oftheCommission andshould begivenahigherpriority thanithadinthepast".1/ 2. Accordingly, thesecretariat hasendeavoured todevise a more extensive progamme oftraining andassistance thanhadbeenpreviously carried out.Theprogramme isdesigned primarily toacquaint lawyers, scholars and government officials, particularly fromdeveloping countries, withtheworkof UNCITRAL andwiththelegaltextsthathaveemanated fromitsworkandto promote theadoption anduseofthosetexts. Thisnotedescribes the developments following thetwenty-second session oftheCommission (1989)and discusses possible futureactivities. I.INTERNATIONAL, REGIONAL ANDNATIONAL SEMINARS A.Seminar oninternational tradelawandarbitration inIndia (Delhi, 12to16October 1989) 3. Theseminar oninternational tradelawandarbitration heldinDelhi washosted bytheIndianCouncil ofArbitration andsponsored bythe Asian-African LegalConsultative Committee (AALCC), UNCITRAL, UnitedNations 1/ReportoftheUnitedNations Commission onInternational TradeLawon theworkofitstwentieth session, Official Records oftheGeneral Assembly, Forty-second Session, Supplement No. 17(A/42/17), para.335. 5497T V.90-84216A/CN.9/335 English Page2 Conference onTradeandDevelopment (UNCTAD) andInternational Institute for theUnification .ofPrivate Law (UNIDROIT). The purpose oftheseminar wasto promote awareness oftheconventions andotherlegaltextsprepared bythe sponsoring organizations intheAsianmemberStatesofAALCC. 4. AALCCmadeallofthearrangements fortheholding oftheseminar, including theissuing ofinvitations. UNCITRAL paidforairtravelexpenses ofsomeoftheparticipants andsomeoftheadministrative costsofholding theseminar. Themajority oftheparticipants werefromtheembassies ofthe respective StatesinDelhi. Inaddition, inexchange forpermitting theuse ofitsfacilities without charge, theIndianCouncil ofArbitration was permitted toinviteupto60ofitsmembers toattendtheseminar. 5. Lectures weregivenby members ofthesecretariats ofthethree co-sponsoring organizations onthetextsoninternational tradelawprepared bytheirorganizations. InthecaseofUNCITRAL, thelectures weregivenon international saleofgoods,thecarriage ofgoodsbysea,international commercial arbitration andinternational billsofexchange andinternational promissory notes. B.Seminar inGuinea(Conakry. 27to29March1990) 6. Atwo-day seminar washostedbytheGovernment ofGuineaandorganized bytheMinistry ofForeign Affairs. Thepurpose oftheseminar wastoexplain theUNCITRAL legaltextstoabroadcross-section ofthelocal legal community. 7. Approximately 120participants fromtheinterested ministries, the university andtheprivate sectorattended theseminar. Thelectures were giveninFrenchby twolecturers, oneofwhomwas a member ofthesecretariat. C.Seminar onInternational TradeLawinU.S.S.R. (Moscow, 17 to21April1990) 8. Asannounced tothetwenty-second session oftheCommission (1989), a seminar ontheworkoftheCommission washeldinMoscow from17to21April 1990forparticipants fromdeveloping countries (A/44/l7, para.285).The SchoolofInternational Private andCivilLawandtheSchoolofInternational Business oftheMoscowStateInstitute forForeign Relations hostedthe seminar. Theseminar wasfinanced from atrustfundestablished bytheSoviet UnionwiththeUnitedNations Development Programme fortraining of individuals fromdeveloping countries. Twenty-on.e participants from developing countries attended the.seminar. 9. Thelectures weregiveninEnglish orinRussian withsimultaneous
**Analysis**
The text appears to be a report on training and assistance programs organized by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) to promote awareness and adoption of international trade law texts among developing countries. The programs involve seminars and training sessions on various topics related to international trade law, arbitration, and commerce. The focus is on capacity building and knowledge sharing among lawyers, scholars, and government officials from developing countries.

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International trade