ORG/1446
1 August 2005

Tentative Schedule of Meetings of United Nations Bodies in August 2005

NEW YORK, 29 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:

11 July-5 August

International Law Commission, fifty-seventh session, Geneva

25 July-12 August

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


Meetings beginning in August:

 

1-12 August

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

2-12 August

Group of governmental experts of the 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, eleventh session, Geneva

2-19 August

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

8 August-23 September

Conference on Disarmament, third part, Geneva

15-26 August

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

15-26 August

International Seabed Authority, Assembly, eleventh session, Kingston

29 August-2 September

Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, New York

29 August-2 September

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

29 August-2 September

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

29 August-9 September

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

30 August-15 September           

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


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