International Organisations in Vienna: What is the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law?

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The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) is based in Vienna and aims to unify and actively promote international trade law. Learn more about this international organisation in Vienna!

UNCITRAL is based in the Vienna International Centre. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Herbert Ortner, Vienna, Austria [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)]

Vienna is known for being home to many international organisations. This is not without reason. As one of the four headquarters of the United Nations (UN), many UN-related organisations are also based in Vienna.

One of them is the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), whose goal is to actively promote the standardisation of international trade…