text: expressed thattheCommission shouldmakeeveryeffort t:ocomplete itswork on. the draftConvention atthatsession. C.Sessions oftheWorking Groups 373.Itwasdecided thattheWorking Group on International Negotiable Instruments wouldholditsfourteenth session from9to20December 1985atViennaand,ifan additional session wasnecessary toputthedraftConvention onInternational Bills ofExchange andInternational Promissory Notesinasuitable formforconsideration bytheCommission atitsnineteenth session, thefifteenth session wouldbeheldin February OrMarch1986inNewYork. 374.Itwasdecided thattheWorking GrouponInternational Contract Practices wouldholditsninthsession from6to17January 1986inNewYork. 375.Itwasdecided thattheWorking GroupontheNewInternational Economic Orderewouldholditseighthsession from17to27 March 1986atVienna. D.Dissemination ofdecisions concerning UNCITRAL legaltexts anduniform interpretation ofsuchtexts 376.Atthesixteenth (1983)andseventeenth (1984)sessions oftheCommission suggestions weremadethatmeansshould beexplored todisseminate judicial and arbitral decisions concerning legaltextsemanating fromtheworkofthe Commission. 30/Atthesession oftheSixthCommittee heldduringthe thirty-ninth-;ession oftheGeneral Assembly, arequest wasalsomadethatthe Secretariat submitapaperonthatsubject totheeighteenth session ofthe Commission. 31/ 377.TheCommission hadbefore it:anotebytheSecretariat (A/CN.9/267) which discussed possible mechanisms forthecOllection anddissemination ofdecisions relating tolegaltextsemanating fromtheworkoftheCommission, andvarious measures topromote theunlform. interpretation ofsuchtexts. The reportnotedthatitmightbepremature atthepresent timefortheCommission to -77'"formulate concrete mechanisms andmeasures, andsuggested thattheCOmmission might wishtoconsider doingsoaftertheentryintoforceoftheUnitedNations COnvention onContracts fortheInternational SaleofGoods(Vienna, 1980). The Commission decided todeferconsideration ofthemattertoanappropriate future session. 378.Inconnection withthisitemtheSecretary oftheCOmmission notedthat pursuant toanauthorization previously givenbytheCOmmission totheUNCITRAL Secretariat, 32/theSecretariat wasintheprocess ofpreparing a book on thework oftheCommission, including adiscussion ofthehistory, mandate, methods ofwork, andworkprogramme oftheCOmmission, aswellasadiscussion ofthetopicsworked on bytheCOmmission. The book wouldreproduce alllegaltextsadopted bythe COmmission, andwouldcontain acomprehensive listofallUNCITRAL documents. Notes 1/Pursuant toGeneral Assembly resolution 2205(XXI),themembers ofthe COmmission areelected foratermofsixyears. Ofthecurrent membership, 19were elected bytheAssembly atitsthirty-fourth session on 9 November 1979 (decision 34/308) and17wereelected bytheAssembly atitsthirty-seventh session on 15 November 1982(decision 37/308). Pursuant toresolution 31/99of 15December 1976thetermofthosemembers elected bytheAssembly atits thirty-fourth session willexpireonthelastdaypriortotheopening ofthe nineteenth regular annualsession oftheCOmmission in1986,whilethetermof thosemembers elected bytheAssembly atitsthirty-seventh session willexpireon thelastdaypriortotheopening ofthetwenty-second regular annualsession of theCOmmission in1989. ~Theelections tookplaceatthe305thand308thmeetings, on 3and 4June1985.Inaccordance withadecision takenbytheCOmmission atitsfirst session, theCOmmission hasthreeVice-Chairmen, sothattogether withtheChairman andRapporteur, eachofthefivegroupsofStateslistedinGeneral Assembly resolution 2205(XXI),sect.11,para.1,willberepresented onthebureauofthe Commission (seereportoftheUnitedNations COmmission on International TradeLaw ontheworkofitsfirstsession, Official Records oftheGeneral Assembly, Twenty-third Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/7~16), para.14(Yearbook oftheUnited ... Nations Commission onInternational TradeLaw,vol.I:1968-1970 (United Nations ~ publication, SalesNo.E.7l.V.l), parttwo,I,A,para.14». 11Thecommission considered thisSUbjectatits305thto333rdmeetings on
analysis: This text appears to be a report from a United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) session, discussing the commission's work on legal texts, international contracts, and international negotiable instruments. The text mentions specific topics such as the draft Convention on International Bills of Exchange and International Promissory Notes, and the dissemination of judicial and arbitral decisions concerning legal texts. The focus seems to be on the development of international trade law and the promotion of uniform interpretation of legal texts.