United Nations

ORG/1326
1 March 2001

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MARCH 2001

NEW YORK, 28 February (UN Headquarters) -- The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in March, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

22 January-30 March

Conference on Disarmament, first part, Geneva

February/March

Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, New York

February/April
(2 days)

Committee for the United Nations Population Award, New York

6 February-30 March

Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

19 February-16 March

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) (162^nd session), Montreal

26 February-2 March

Commission for Social Development acting as the preparatory committee for the Second World Assembly on Ageing, New York

26 February-2 March

Ad Hoc Committee on the elaboration of a Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, Vienna

26 February-2 March

Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group A, and informal/expert meetings, Vienna

26 February-2 March

Commission on Sustainable Development, Ad Hoc Open-ended Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Energy and Sustainable Development, New York

26 February-2 March

Open-ended consultations of the plenary of the General Assembly on the special session on HIV/AIDS, New York

26 February-9 March

Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court, New York

26 February-9 March

Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Structural Adjustment, Geneva

March/April
(one week)

International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), Board of Trustees (twenty-first session), Santo Domingo

Meetings beginning in March:

March

Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, Geneva

March/April
(1 meeting)

6-9 March

Statistical Commission (thirty-second session), New York

6-9 March

Inter-sessional Open-ended Working Group of the Preparatory Committee for the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Geneva

6-16 March

Commission on the Status of Women (forty-fifth session), New York

6-16 March

Commission on Sustainable Development, inter-sessional ad hoc open-ended working groups, New York

6-23 March

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (fifty-eighth session), Geneva

8-30 March

International Labour Organisation (ILO), Governing Body and its committees (280^th session), Geneva

12-16 March

Human Rights Committee, Working Group on Communications, New York

12-23 March

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Electronic Commerce (thirty-eighth session),
New York

12 March-6 April

General Assembly, Fifth Committee, resumed (fifty-fifth session), New York

13-15 March

Security Council, Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolution 687 (1991), (thirty-ninth session), Geneva

19-22 March

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna

19 March-27 April

Commission on Human Rights (fifty-seventh session), Geneva

19-30 March

Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (third session), New York

19 March-6 April

Human Rights Committee (seventy-first session), New York

20-29 March

Commission on Narcotic Drugs (forty-fourth session), Vienna

21-26 March

Committee of the Whole of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Vienna

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