{"id":5998,"date":"2019-04-23T06:44:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T11:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/?p=5998"},"modified":"2024-08-09T18:29:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T16:29:41","slug":"un-general-assembly-adopts-new-convention-on-mediation-involving-international-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2019\/04\/23\/un-general-assembly-adopts-new-convention-on-mediation-involving-international-settlements\/","title":{"rendered":"UN General Assembly adopts new convention on mediation involving international settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 21, 2018, the United Nations General Assembly has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unis.unvienna.org\/unis\/en\/pressrels\/2018\/unisl271.html\">given its approval<\/a> to a new \u201cConvention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation,\u201d which aims to answer past concerns by many countries over how to enforce mediation settlement agreements involving multiple countries.<\/p>\n<p>UN member states will be able to sign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncitral.org\/pdf\/english\/commissionsessions\/51st-session\/Annex_I.pdf\">the new convention<\/a> in August 2019 in Singapore, after which the convention will be named. Under the convention, international mediation settlements will have a uniform framework to follow, and the outcomes will be enforceable per the rules of the convention.<\/p>\n<p>The convention sets out agreed definitions and general principles, requirements for parties that are relying on these settlement agreements, the grounds under which a convention party can decide not to grant relief, parallel applications or claims that may affect relief, reservations, and interactions with other laws and treaties in the relevant parties.<\/p>\n<p>The convention will enter into force six months after at least three countries have deposited the necessary ratification instruments. For each additional ratification, the convention will take effect in that country following a six-month window.<!--more--><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips3','United Nations Commission on International Trade Law'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips65','East African community'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips67','Energy Charter Treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips100','investissement direct \u00e9tranger'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips106','asociaci\u00f3n p\u00fablica-privada'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 21, 2018, the United Nations General Assembly has given its approval to a new \u201cConvention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation,\u201d which aims to answer past concerns by many countries over how to enforce mediation settlement agreements involving multiple countries.<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips106','asociaci\u00f3n p\u00fablica-privada'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[2039,2040,1921],"class_list":["post-5998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-adr","tag-mediation","tag-united-nations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}