ORG/1356
 1 August 2002

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN AUGUST 2002

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:

22 July-16 August

International Law Commission, fifty-fourth session, Geneva

29 July-9 August

Ad Hoc Committee to elaborate a convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, New York

29 July-16 August

Commission on Human Rights, Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, fifty-fourth session, Geneva

29 July-13 September

Conference on Disarmament, third part, Geneva

Meetings beginning in August:

  

5-16 August

International Seabed Authority, Assembly, eighth session, Kingston

5-23 August

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, extraordinary session, New York

5-23 August

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, sixty-first session, Geneva

19-22 August

Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), eighteenth session, Vienna

19-23 August

Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, sixty-seventh session, New York

19-30 August

Committee for Programme and Coordination, forty-second session, second part, New York

19-30 August

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

26 August

United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, twenty-first session, Berlin

26 August-4 September

World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg

26 August-13 September

Preparatory Commission for the CTBTO, Working Group B and informal/expert meetings, Vienna

27 August-5 September

Eighth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names, Berlin

29 August

Twelfth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, New York

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