As reflected
in the travaux préparatoires,
article XIV was originally drafted
in almost identical wording as a second paragraph of the then
article X
addressing the rights and duties of federal or non-unitary contracting states (now
article XI).1390 As drafted at the time, this proposed reciprocity provision did not meet unanimous approval, as some delegations wished to clarify that it would only apply to federal states.1391 It was not until the United Nations Conference on International Commercial Arbitration convened for the preparation and adoption of the Convention that the representative for Norway proposed an amendment for a general reciprocity clause that would stand as a
separate article.1392 A majority of the delegates accepted this amendment on the very last day of the Conference.