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  UNIS/PI/227
31 January 2001
 

Tentative Schedule of Meetings of United Nations Bodies in February 2001

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

15 January-2 ebruary

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

22 January-30 March

Conference on Disarmament, first part, Geneva

29 January-2 ebruary

Committee on the Rights of the Child, Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva

29 January-2 ebruary

Commission on Human Rights, open-ended working group on the right to development, Geneva

29 January-2 February

World Health Organization (WHO), Executive Board (107th session), Geneva

29 January-2 February

Commission on Human Rights, expert meeting on the issue of mercenaries, Geneva

29 January-2 February

Preparatory Committee for the Special Session of the General Assembly in 2001 for Follow-up to the World Summit for Children (second substantive session), New York

29 January-6 February

Executive Board of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (first regular session), New York

30 January-2 February

Economic and Social Council (organizational session), New York

31 January-2 February

Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, New York


Meetings beginning in February:

February

Consultative Committee on the United Nations Development Fund for Women (forty-first session, New York

February

United Nations Latin American and Caribbean meeting on the question of Palestine (venue to be determined)

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

Committee for the United Nations (2 days) Population Award, New York

5-9 February

International Narcotics Control Board (seventieth session, Vienna)

5-9 February

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Pre-sessional Working Group, New York

5-9 February

Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee for the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (second session), New York

5-9 February

Group of Governmental Experts on the feasibility study of small arms, New York

5-9 February

Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Situations, Geneva

5-9 February

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Governing Council (twenty-first session), Nairobi

5-16 February

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

6 February-30 March

Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

12 February

United Nations Forum on Forests (organizational session), New York

12-16 February

Commission on Human Settlements (eighteenth session), Nairobi

12-16 February

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues, Geneva

12-16 February

Executive Board of World Food Programme (WFP) (first regular session), Rome

12-23 February

Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Scientific and Technical Subcommittee (thirty-eighth session), Vienna

12-23 February

Commission on Human Rights, open-ended working group on a draft optional protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Geneva

12-23 February

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

12-23 February

Preparatory Committee for the high-level international intergovernmental event on financing for development (second substantive session), New York

12-23 February

Ad Hoc Committee established by General Assembly resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996, New York

13-23 February

Commission for Social Development (thirty-ninth session), New York

19-20 February

Investments Committee, Singapore

19-23 February 

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities, Geneva

19-23 February

Commission on Human Settlements acting as the preparatory committee for the special session of the General Assembly for an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the Habitat Agenda (second substantive session), Nairobi

19 February-16 March

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

20-21 February

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Governing Council, Rome

20-21 February

United Nations seminar on assistance to the Palestinian people, Vienna

20-23 February

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

26 February

Eighth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, New York

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

 
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