ORG/1341
3 December 2001

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN DECEMBER 2001

NEW YORK, 30 November (UN Headquarters) -- The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in December, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

 

4 September-21 December

Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

11 September-December

General Assembly, fifty-sixth session, New York

November/December
(3 days)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Inter-Agency Consultative Meeting, New York

19 November-7 December

Fifth Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, Geneva

19 November-14 December

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, one hundred and sixty-fourth session, Montreal

26 November-5 December

Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, thirty-second session, Geneva

27 November-4 December

Panel of External Auditors of the United Nations, the Specialized Agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), location to be determined

Meetings beginning in December:

December (2 days)

Disarmament Commission, organizational session New York

December

Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for (1 meeting) the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva

3-7 December

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva

3-7 December

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), General Conference, ninth session, Vienna

3-7 December

United Nations University (UNU), Council, forty-eighth session, Tokyo

3-14 December

Subcommittee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and Subcommittee of Experts on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, Geneva

3-14 December

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Insolvency Law, twenty-fifth session, Vienna

4-7 December

Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague

5 December

United Nations Board of Auditors, special session, location to be determined

5-6 December

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Executive Board, Rome

10 December

Annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II of the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, Geneva

10 December

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Committee of Permanent Representatives, seventy-seventh meeting, Nairobi

10-14 December

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Executive Board, second regular and extraordinary budgetary session, New York

10-14 December

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development, Geneva

11-13 December

Security Council, Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolution 692 (1991), forty-second session, Geneva

11-21 December

Second Review Conference of the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, Geneva

12-14 December

Commission on Narcotic Drugs, resumed forty-fourth session, Vienna

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