This volume of the "Yearbook" details the activities of the United Nations, its many organs, agencies and programmes, working together to rekindle a new form of multilateral cooperation for a better world.

This study, sponsored by the United Nations, provides an unusually clear picture of the economic and policy measures needed to put this concept into practice over the next 25 years.

This edition marks the 60th anniversary of the UN, and it examines the work of the UN and its agencies during the past year, as well as key reform proposals and development goals.

The Charter of the United Nations was signed in 1945 by 51 countries representing all continents, paving the way for the creation of the United Nations on 24 October 1945.

Contains texts of relevant United Nations conventions and UNCITRAL rules.