Seminar on Investment Mediation

Today, the President of the Association, N.A. Lykova, took part as a listener in a Seminar on Investment Mediation, which was held within the framework of the Forum for Further Preparatory Work on Investment Mediation of the UNCITRAL Working Group III on ISDS Reform, organized by the United Nations UNCITRAL, Asian Academy of International Law, Department of Justice, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China.
During the seminar, the speakers discussed draft new rules, draft model regulations, draft guidelines, new procedural rules, a draft settlement agreement, issues of the relationship between confidentiality and openness of the dispute resolution process between the parties of the conflict, the relationship between the use of direct negotiations, mandatory mediation and arbitration, etc.