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Statement of Request for ADB Support

3 December 2024
The statement, intended to be signed by representatives of Pacific countries, requests support from ADB to improve and streamline insurance provisions for infrastructure projects in the Pacific.

GEO The Law of Georgia on the Property of Agricultural Lands

24 April 2023
Agricultural land plot is the land registered in the land book (public register) as agricultural land plot and used (with auxiliary buildings or without them) for producing of stockbreeding and plant-growing products.

GEO Law of Georgia on Social Assistance 2006

24 April 2023
The purpose of this Law is to provide fair, targeted and effective assistance to people by developing a regulated system of social assistance.

GEO Law of Georgia on Hazardous Chemical Substances

16 December 2022
The present Law regulates the legal relations between the authorities and natural and legal persons in the sphere of development, testing and official expertise, standardization, registration, production, packing, marking and labeling, transportation, use, export and import, processing, rendering…

GEO Law of Georgia on Cultural Heritage Protection

16 December 2022
The purpose of the Law, the scope of its application and the terms used therein.

Athita Komindr Opening Remarks Speech

17 March 2021
Ms. Athita Komindr, head of the UNCITRAL Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific (RCAP), also gave her opening remarks. She identified the positive impacts of ADB and UNCITRAL’s collaboration in introducing legal reforms on international commercial arbitration in the South Pacific, and stated…

Remarks of Michael Whitten QC

17 March 2021
Lord Chief Justice Michael Whitten QC of the Supreme Court of Tonga presented next on Tonga’s arbitration law regime. Tonga’s International Arbitration Act entered into force on 3 March 2021—only 2 weeks before the conference was held. Prior to the enactment of this law, Tonga did not have a law…

Role of Judiciary and Jurisprudence in Domestic and International Arbitration

17 March 2021
This paper informs the readers about the arbitration related decisions rendered by Pakistani judiciary, the challenges faced by the Pakistani legal fraternity when it comes to arbitration, the need for judicial training, and the author's views on arbitration in Pakistan.

John Denton Keynote Address

17 March 2021
Mr. John Denton, secretary general of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), delivered the keynote address. He drew the audiences’ attention to the ICC’s efforts to achieve its overall purpose of enabling business worldwide to secure peace, prosperity, and opportunity for all. These efforts…

Thomas Clark Opening Remarks

17 March 2021
In his opening remarks, Mr. Thomas Clark, general counsel of ADB, highlighted the significance of this conference in convening key government officials, policy makers, judges, lawyers, private sector, development partners, and international arbitration experts to talk about ways to lift barriers to…