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United Nations
Forty-fifth session
(25 June-6 July 2012)
General Assembly
Official Records
Sixty-seventh session
Supplement No. 17
A/67/17
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44 Available from www.unidroit.org.
45 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-second Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/62/17),
part I, paras. 209-213.
46 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1489, No. 25567.
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Noting that the preamble of the Unidroit Principles 2010 states that:
These Principles set forth general rules for international commercial
contracts,
They shall be applied when the parties have agreed that their contract be
governed by them,
They may be applied when parties have agreed that their contract be
governed by general principles of law, the lex mercatoria or the like,
They may be applied when the parties have not chosen any law to
govern their contract,
They may be used to interpret or supplement international uniform law
instruments,
They may be used to interpret or supplement domestic law,
They may serve as a model for national and international legislators,
Congratulating Unidroit on having made a further contribution to the
facilitation of international trade by preparing general rules for international
commercial contracts,
Commends the use of the 2010 edition of the Unidroit Principles of
International Commercial Contracts, as appropriate, for their intended
purposes.
B. Incoterms 2010
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47 Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/47/17),
para. 161.
48 Ibid., Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/55/17), para. 434.
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