On 23 July 2018 Namibia’s instruments of accession to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and to the Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters specific to Aircraft Equipment was deposited with UNIDROIT. Namibia made declarations under Articles 
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On 23 July 2018, a panel titled ‘The UNIDROIT Principles as a Common Frame of Reference for the Uniform Interpretation of National Laws’ was held during the 20th quadrennial General Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan.  The 
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  On 13 July 2018 Legal Officer William Brydie-Watson participated in a workshop providing technical assistance to Indonesia regarding legal instruments that would assist in strengthening Indonesia’s economic legal infrastructure. Working alongside experts from UNCITRAL and the HCCH, UNIDROIT provided guidance on the Institute’s work 
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  From 4 to 6 July 2018, UNIDROIT participated in a three-day national workshop to strengthen capacities for the fight against illicit trafficking of cultural property organised by UNESCO and the Ethiopian Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.   The workshop also 
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On 2 July 2018, the Kingdom of Sweden, which is already a Party to the Cape Town Convention and the Aircraft Protocol, deposited its instrument of ratification of the Luxembourg Rail Protocol, with a declaration under Article XXVII(1). The Luxembourg Rail Protocol will enter into 
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Ms Marina Schneider, UNIDROIT Senior Legal Officer, presented the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention and the concept of unification of private law at the ARCA’s Annual Interdisciplinary Art Crime Conference, held in Amelia (IT), June 23-24.   -> More info
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The instrument of accession to the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention has been deposited by the Republic of the Union of Myanmar with the Italian Government, Depositary of the Convention, on 20 June 2018 and the Convention will enter into force for the Republic of the Union 
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On 20 June 2018, Ms Marina Schneider, UNIDROIT Senior Legal Officer, gave a lecture to the students of the Geneva Summer School of International Cultural Heritage Law – University of Geneva about the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects.   -> 
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On 12 June  2018 Secretary-General a.i. Professor Anna Veneziano and Legal Officer William Brydie-Watson delivered a joint lecture on the Cape Town Convention and future MAC Protocol to LLM students at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. The lecture was organised by UNIDROIT Governing Council 
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The Aviation Working Group invited key stakeholders to attend an important Aviation Working Group (AWG) African regional event on the Cape Town Convention and its Aircraft Protocol (CTC) and cross border transferability of aircraft (XBT). This AWG event was hosted by, and was held in 
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