On 22 September 2023, UNIDROIT and Roma Tre University School of Law hosted a dinner to celebrate the constitution of the Roma Tre – UNIDROIT Centre for Transnational Commercial Law and International Arbitration. The Centre aims at promoting research and academic scholarship on transnational commercial 
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From 23 to 25 October 2023, the Working Group on International Investment Contracts met for its first session at the seat of UNIDROIT in Rome. The meeting was attended by 30 Working Group Members and Observers. The project on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial 
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Between 17-19 October 2023, the Working Group on Bank Insolvency, chaired by Governing Council Member Stefania Bariatti, held its fifth session. The session took place at the seat of UNIDROIT in Rome and was conducted both in-person and via Zoom. The session began with an 
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Professor Maria Chiara Malaguti, President of UNIDROIT, and Mr Henri Khoury, Minister of Justice of Lebanon On 25 September 2023, Mr Henri Khoury, Minister of Justice of Lebanon, accompanied by H.E. Mira Daher, Ambassador of Lebanon to Italy, and by Judge Carl Irani, paid a 
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Paragraph 31 of the New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration adopted on 9 September 2023 puts culture in the driver’s seat towards the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs). The declaration calls for full recognition and protection of culture, with its intrinsic value, as a transformative driver 
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On 20 July 2023, His Excellency, Mr Yiorgos Christofides, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cyprus in Italy, accompanied by Ms Kypriani Stavrinaki, Counselor of the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in Italy, visited UNIDROIT to deposit Cyprus’s instruments of accession to 
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In the context of the seminar on UNIDROIT Projects organised by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs on 3 July 2023, the Secretary-General of UNIDROIT had the honour of meeting Smt. Meenakashi Lekhi, Honourable Minister of State for External Affairs of India. The UNIDROIT delegation, 
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On 3 July 2023, in the context of India’s Presidency of the UNIDROIT General Assembly, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs organised a seminar in New Delhi dedicated to the work of UNIDROIT. The seminar was opened by Ms Uma Sekhar, Additional Secretary at the 
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On 27 June, H.E. Naser Al Belooshi, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain to Italy, paid a courtesy call on Professor Ignacio Tirado, Secretary-General, and Professor Anna Veneziano, Deputy Secretary-General, at the seat of UNIDROIT. Among the topics discussed were the possibility of establishing stronger 
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Professor Anna Veneziano, Deputy Secretary-General of UNIDROIT, participated in the Conference “Digital Vulnerability in European Private Law”, organised by the University of Ferrara on 14-15 June 2023. The conference focused on the current and future legal status of the concept of digital vulnerability – that 
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