International commercial law: 2005 Developments

Business Lawyer

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1633-1643

  Rocks, Sandra M ^a   Sawyer, Kate A ^a  

^a Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton   (United States)

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2. [hereinafter "Seventh Session Report of Working Group I (Procurement)"].
3. The Commission assigned this task to Working Group I in June 2004, following completion of its work on Privately Financed Infrastructure Projects. Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on its thirty-seventh session, General Assembly, 59th Sess., Supp. No. 17, at 26-27.
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16. Id. at 17.
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18. Id.
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21. Id. at 23.
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27. Id. at 6.
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31. Id. at 26.
32. Id. at 31.
33. Id. at 31-32.
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84. Id. at 15-17.