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UNCITRAL Secretariat's Explanatory Notes

• 14 March 2023
• in: Partners & alliances publications

The following is a list of Explanatory Notes prepared by the Secretariat of the Commission (The UNCITRAL), excluding drafts. Updated on 14.03.2023 

Legal and technical grounds for the creation of the Venezuelan Identification System

• 16 November 2020
• in: Partners & alliances publications

The following is a study on the legal and technical feasibility of creating temporary and permanent solutions to put an end to the serious problem that Venezuelans are going through, due to the fact that the competent authority responsible for the issuance of the national passports and identity cards has stopped performing its work. This violation of constitutional guarantees and, in general, o read more...

Contrasting impressions between the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the long-lasting Venezuelan crisis

• 12 November 2020
• in: Partners & alliances publications

The document was prepared on 22 June 2017 within the framework of a collaboration with the Mesa de Zurich. The document was printed as a brochure financed by a funds raised among the group of Venezuelans who attended a public event of the Mesa de Zurich. The funds collected were used to cover the cost of a permit from the Zurich Police Office to hold the event in a square of the city read more...

Recovery of illicitly deviated state-owned assets: How feasible is it?

• 31 May 2020
• in: Partners & alliances publications

Presentation performed at the International Summer School on Banking & Capital Markets Law, Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio, 24 July 2019. The summer school was organized by the Università del Sacro Cuore di Milano jointly with other universities, including the University of Zurich.

The Outsider as Insider: Profiling WTO Panelists for their Impact on World Trade Decisions by M.G. Sarmiento

• 23 May 2020
• in: Partners & alliances publications

ISSN : 1875-4120, Issue : Vol. 14, issue 2, Published : May 2017

This paper is part of the Transational Dispute Management (TDM) Non-Legal Adjudicators in National and International Disputes Special prepared by:

Maria Gabriela Sarmiento 
Sarmiento Núñez Consulting, Main Office Caracas & Branch Office Zurich

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The UNASUR Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes and Venezuela. Will Both Ever See the Light at the End of the Tunnel

• 23 May 2020
• in: Partners & alliances publications

Dear Reader,

The research article "The UNASUR Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes and Venezuela. Will Both Ever See the Light at the End of the Tunnel? written by Maria Gabriela Sarmiento, partner and co-founder of SNC, has been published in the Journal of World Investment & Trade (JWIT) No. 17, Year 2016, Pages 658–68 read more...

The 2012 Draft Constitutive Agreement of the Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes of the UNASUR (November 20, 2015).

• 28 January 2016
• in: Partners & alliances publications

Maria Gabriela Sarmiento 
S.C. Sarmiento Nunez Consulting
November 20, 2015
Last review December 16, 2015

Abstract:      This document contains an unofficial translation into English of the Draft Constitutive Agreement of th read more...