On 13 May 2021, the Chargé d’affaires of the Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic in Italy, Mr Ermek Isakov, visited UNIDROIT to deposit Kyrgyzstan’s instrument of accession to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and to the Protocol to the Convention on International 
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On 7 May 2021, Deputy Secretary-General Anna Veneziano was invited to deliver a lecture on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (UPICC) in the 9th Edition of the Business and Company Law Masters of LUISS University (Rome), coordinated by Professor Barbara De Donno. Her 
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On 6 May 2021, UNIDROIT participated in the third meeting of the Group of Experts established by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) for the Permanent Identification of Railway Rolling Stock (PIRRS). The Group of Experts was established upon recommendation of the Inland 
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On 4 May 2021, Legal Consultant Mr Hamza Hameed delivered a lecture via videoconferencing to the students of the Advanced Master’s LLM in Air and Space Law Programme at the International Institute of Air and Space Law at Leiden University. The lecture focussed on the 
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On 4 May 2021, Deputy Secretary-General Anna Veneziano represented UNIDROIT in the book launch of “Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts” (Oxford University Press, 2021), in a panel together with HCCH SG Christophe Bernasconi and First Secretary João Ribeiro-Bidaoui, and UNCITRAL Legal Officer Luca 
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On 30 April 2021, Ms Marina Schneider, UNIDROIT Principal Legal Officer and Treaty Depositary, delivered a lecture to students of the Master’s programme Policies and Governance in Europe (PAGE) of the LUISS University in Rome. The lecture was delivered within the advanced module in European 
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On 28 April 2021, Legal Officer Ms Priscila Andrade delivered a lecture to the students of the Programme “Diritto Privato Comparato delle persone e dei mercati” – Università degli Studi di Milano. The lecture was introduced by Professor Naiara Posenato and addressed UNIDROIT’s general working 
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At its 99th session, the UNIDROIT Governing Council authorised the Secretariat to organise a colloquium in 2021 to discuss and specify the potential scope of the new project developed in cooperation with FAO and IFAD on Legal Structure of Agricultural Enterprises. The Consultation Webinar was held 
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The second edition of Lyndel Prott’s Commentary on the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects was just published with the Institute of Art and Law (ISBN: 978-1-903978-43-8). This Commentary was prepared by Prof. Lyndel Prott who was deeply involved in the 
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Prof. Ignacio Tirado, Secretary General, participated in the online regional dialogue on the fight against illicit trafficking on cultural property and the return and restitution of cultural property in the Africa region, organised within the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the 1970 UNESCO Convention. He 
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