ORG/1332
1 August 2001

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN AUGUST

NEW YORK, 31 July (UN Headquarters) -- The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in August, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

July/August
(2 days)

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

2 July-10 August

International Law Commission (fifty-third session, second part), Geneva

23 July–3 August

United Nations Conference on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Insolvency Law (twenty-fourth session), New York

23 July-17 August

Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (twenty-fourth session), Geneva

30 July-3 August

Panel of Governmental Experts on Missiles in All Their Aspects (first session), New York

30 July-3 August

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), meeting of governmental experts from landlocked and transit developing countries and representatives of donor countries and financial and development institutions, New York

30 July-3 August

Open-ended expert group to examine and prepare draft terms of reference for a legal instrument against corruption, Vienna

30 July-10 August

Commission on Human Rights acting as the Preparatory Committee for the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Tolerance, third session, Geneva

30 July-17 August

Commission on Human Rights, Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (fifty-third session), Geneva

30 July-17 August

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

30 July–14 September

Conference on Disarmament (third part), Geneva

 

Meetings beginning in August:

August
(3 days)

United Nations international meeting on the question of Palestine, location to be determined

13-17 August

Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, sixty-fourth session, Geneva

13-31 August

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, extraordinary session, Geneva

20-31 August

Commission on Human Rights, Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Working Group on Communications, Geneva

21-24 August

Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, fifteenth session, Vienna

27-29 August

Committee on Conferences, substantive session, New York

27 August-
14 September

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

31 August-7 September

World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Durban

 

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