On 4 October 2018, one of the most important events in the field of international commercial arbitration – V International Arbitration Readings in memory of Academician Igor Pobirchenko – was held. This year the Readings were devoted to the 60th anniversary of the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards. The event was organized by the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry under auspices of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law.