ORG/1410
1 April 2004


Tentative Schedule of Meetings of United Nations Bodies in April 2004

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

March/April (2 days)

Committee for the United Nations Population Award, New York

15 March-2 April

Human Rights Committee, eightieth session,  New York

15 March-23 April

Commission on Human Rights, sixtieth session, Geneva

29-March-2 April

Committee for Development Policy, sixth session, New York

29 March-2 April

Committee of Experts on Public Administration, New York

29 March-2 April

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Insolvency Law,  New York

29 March-8 April

Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization, New York

29 March-8 April

Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Legal Subcommittee, forty-third session, Vienna

29 March-16 April

International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), fifty-eighth session, Paris

29 March-23 April

Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and its Working Group, substantive session, New York



Meetings beginning in April

April

Committee of Permanent Representatives to   UN-Habitat, Nairobi

April
(1 day) 

Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, organizational session, New York

2-3 April

United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, first regular session, Vienna

5-23 April

Disarmament Commission, New York

12-16 April

Ad Hoc Committee on the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel, New York

13-30 April

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Committee, Montreal

14-16 April

Commission on Sustainable Development acting as the preparatory committee for the International Meeting to Review the Implementation of the Programme Action for Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, New York

14-29 April

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Executive Board, Paris

19-21 April

Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, San Jose, Costa Rica

19-30 April

Commission on Sustainable Development, twelfth session, New York

20-29 April

United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, twenty-second session,  New York

21-22 April

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

22-28 April

Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), sixtieth session, Shanghai

26 April

Economic and Social Council, special high-level meeting with the Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade Organization, New York

26-30 April

Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, New York

26-30 April

Committee against Torture, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

26-30 April

United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, fifty-second session, Vienna

26 April-7 May

Preparatory Committee for the 2005 Review Conference of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, third session, New York

26 April-7 May  

Committee on Information, twenty-sixth session, New York

26 April-14 May

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, thirty-second session, Geneva

27-29 April

United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Board of Trustees, forty-second session, Geneva

* *** *