ORG/1426
1 December 2004

Tentative Schedule of Meetings of United Nations
Bodies in December 2004

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:

7 September-24 December

Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

14 September-December

General Assembly, fifty-ninth session, New York

27 November-17 December

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, Montreal

29 November-3 December

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, pre-sessional working group, 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-3 December

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

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

Meetings beginning in December:

December

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

December

Committee of Permanent Representatives to UN-Habitat, Nairobi

December

Committee of Permanent Representatives to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi

1-2 December

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

6 December

Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), New York

6-10 December

United Nations University (UNU), Council, fifty-first session (1 week), Helsinki

6-17 December

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Conference of the Parties to the Convention, tenth session, and meetings of subsidiary bodies, Buenos Aires

7-9 December

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

7-9 December

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

7-14 December

Panel of External Auditors of the United Nations, the Specialized Agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency, Paris (UNESCO Headquarters)

8-10 December

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

10 December

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

14-17 December

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

15 December

United Nations Board of Auditors, special session, Paris (UNESCO Headquarters)

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