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rules. 55 The exact number of UNCITRAL proceedings is unknown,
given that many UNCTRAL disputes are entirely confidential.5
Figure 2. Distribution of known ISDS cases
UNCITRAL
Other
SCC
5%
8%
26%
ICSID
61%
(i) ICSID and ICSID Additional Facility
A common venue for arbitration of investment disputes is
ICSID, at the World Bank. ICSID was established in 1965 by the
ICSID Convention, which is in force for 149 States (as of 20 May
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Ibid. Other venues have been used much more rarely, with 27 known
cases at the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, eight at the International
Chamber of Commerce and three at the Cairo Regional Centre for
International Commercial Arbitration. A number of proceedings are
governed by ad hoc rules; in some other disputes the applicable rules are
not known.
56 That is, not only arbitral decisions remain undisclosed but the very
existence of the dispute as well.
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