Report and Preliminary Draft Convention adopted by the Committee on International Commercial Arbitration at its meeting of 13 March 1953The text which follows was originally published in 1953 as ICC Publication no 174, which is no longer available for distribution. It is reproduced here as a historical reference in the ongoing debate on the future of the New York Convention. The Preliminary Draft Convention served as the basis of the discussions that led to the adoption of the final text of the Convention in 1958. For reference purposes, the page numbers of the original publication are indicated in square brackets.