ORG/1425
2 November 2004

Tentative Schedule of Meetings of United Nations Bodies in November 2004

NEW YORK, 1 November (UN Headquarters) -- The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in November, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

7 September-24 December        

Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), New York

14 September-December

General Assembly, fifty-ninth session, New York

18 October-5 November

Human Rights Committee, eighty-second session, Geneva

18 October-5 November

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Committee, Montreal

25 October-5 November

Commission on Human Rights, working group of experts on people of African descent, Geneva

25 October-24 November

United Nations Administrative Tribunal, New York

27 October-11 November

International Narcotics Control Board, eighty-first session, Vienna

Meetings beginning in November:

November

United Nations Staff Pension Committee (1 meeting), New York

3 November

Disarmament Commission, organizational session, New York

3 November

United Nations Pledging Conference for Development Activities, New York

4-19 November

International Labour Organization (ILO), Governing Body and its committees, Geneva

8-11 November

Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights, Board of Trustees, Geneva

8-12 November

Committee against Torture, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

8-15 November

Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, seventy-fourth session, Geneva

8-16 November

Group of governmental experts of the Geneva States parties to 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, ninth session, Geneva

8-26 November

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

9-11 November

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Industrial Development Board, Vienna

10 November

Advisory Committee on the United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law, thirty-ninth session, New York

15-19 November

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

15-19 November

International Maritime Organization (IMO), Assembly, London

15-19 November

IMO, Council, London

15-26 November

Committee against Torture, thirty-third session, Geneva

17 November

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

17-26 November

Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Geneva

18-19 November

Annual Meeting of States parties to 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

22 November

Investments Committee, New York

22-24 November

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Technical Assistance and Cooperation Committee, Vienna

22-27 November

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Council, Rome

23-26 November

Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights, Board of Trustees, Geneva

25-26 November

IAEA, Board of Governors, Vienna

27 November-17

December         International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, Montreal

29 November

Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Special Meeting in Observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, New York

29 November-3 December

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

29-November-3 December

Working Group on a draft declaration on the rights of indigenous people, Geneva

29 November-3 December

Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, ninth session, The Hague

29 November-3 December

Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads of national drug law enforcement agencies, Asia and the Pacific region, Bangkok

29 November-3 December

First Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, Nairobi

29 November-7 December

Subcommittee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Geneva

29 November-10 December

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Transport Law, fourteenth session, Vienna

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