text: English andFrench. Thepublication alsocontains asuggested standard clause inEnglish, French andGerman. F.ICC/CMEA: East-West jointventures andarbitration 106.TheInternational Chamber ofCommerce andtheChambers ofCommerce and Industry ofthesevenEuropean countries whoaremembers oftheCounc.il for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA)jointly organized theVthSeminar on East-West Arbitration whichwasheldinParisonFebruary 1and2,1990. The topicsdiscussed attheSeminar were:theconcept ofajointventure andits legalcontext; negotiating anddrafting thedispute resolution clauses inthe jointventure documents; arbitration andpossible disputes related toajoint venture inaCMEAcountry; jointventure andmultiparty arbitration inthe CMEAcountries; resorttoStatecourtsintheCMEAcountries. At asubsequent meeting, theWorking PartyonArbitration withintheLiaison Committee ofthe ICCandtheChambers ofCommerce ofSocialist Countries fortheDevelopment of East-West TradeandEconomic Co-operation decided toconveyinformation on East-West arbitration through aspecial bulletin published undertheauspices oftheICC. G.ICCA:publications andcongresses 107.TheInternational Council forCommercial Arbitration (ICCA)continued to publish theYearbook Commercial Arbitration. TheYearbook provides comprehensive andup-to-date world-wide information oncommercial arbitration. TheYearbook includes national reports onarbitration lawand practice, courtdecisions ontheapplication ofthe1958NewYorkConvention ontheRecognition andEnforcement ofForeign Arbitral Awards,abstracts of arbitral awards fromarbitral institutions andadhocarbitrations, and articles onarbitration rulesandpractice. TheYearbook entereditsA/CN.9/336 English Page36 fourteenth yearin1989.Thelastnational reportwaspublished inYearbook XIV -1988.Thereports arenowcovered exclusively inICCA'sInternational Handbook onCommercial Arbitration, alooseleafseriesofarbitration statutes andnational reports. 108.In1988theproceedings oftheICCAIXthInternational Congress heldin TokyofromMay31 -June3,1987,werepublished asvolumeno.4ofICCA Congress Series. The Tokyo Congress discussed twothemes: (a)arbitration in settlement ofinternational commercial disputes involving theFarEast,(b) arbitration incombined transportation. Thenextvolumewillcoverthe proceedings oftheXthInternational Arbitration Congress inStockholm. The subject ofthiscongress willbe(a)preventing delayordisruption of arbitration, (b)effective proceedings inconstruction cases. TheCongress willbeheldfrom28-30May1990. H. ILA: transnational rulesoflaw 109.Acommittee oftheInternational LawAssociation isassembling material andanalysing theapplicability oftransnational rulesoflawininternational commercial arbitration, havingregardtotherespective practice incivillaw andcommon lawcountries. Areportisbeingprepared andwillbepresented at theAssociation's 64thConference inAustralia inAugust 1990. I.PTA:regional arbitration centre 110.ThePTAFederation ofChambers ofCommerce andIndustry (PTA/FCCI) established, on November 21,1987,aregional arbitration body.ThePTA Centre, located inDjibouti, adopted theUNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. Thereis nocommonlegalregimeinthePTAregionontherecognition andenforcement of foreign arbitral awards. TheCouncil ofMinisters ofthePTAhasurgedall PTAMemberStates, whicharenotyetparties tothe1958NewYorkConvention ontheRecognition andEnforcement ofForeign Arbitral Awards, toaccedetoit. X.PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW A. Hague Conference: lawapplicable tonegotiable instruments 111.The Hague Conference isworking onthepreparation ofaconvention onthe lawapplicable tonegotiable instruments. AreportofthePermanent Bureauon thetopicwillbereleased in1990.Afinaldecision astowhether thematter shouldbetreated inthecontext ofanextraordinary session opento
analysis: The text appears to be related to international trade and commerce, specifically discussing various organizations and initiatives focused on arbitration, dispute resolution, and commercial law. It also touches on the topic of East-West trade and economic cooperation.