Malta has been elected a member of the UN commission on international trade law, which has a total of 30 countries as members.

UNCITRAL, as the commission is known, was set up in 1966 to harmonise and unify laws on international trade. It meets every year at the UN headquarters in New York and in Vienna.

The other member countries are France, Germany, Japan, China, Canada, Armenia, Bahrain, Benin, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Chile, Egypt, El Salvador, Greece, Honduras, Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Norway, North Korea, Russia, Senegal, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Britain and Northern Ireland.