ORG/1456
3 January 2006
Tentative Schedule of Meetings of United Nations Bodies in January 2006
NEW YORK, 30 December (UN Headquarters) -- The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in January, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:
Meetings beginning in January:
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January |
Consultative Committee on the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), forty-sixth session, New York |
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January/February
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Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Situations, Geneva |
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6-17 January |
Commission on Human Rights, open-ended working group to elaborate an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Geneva |
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9 January |
Economic and Social Council, election of Bureau, New York |
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9-13 January |
Commission on Human Rights, open-ended working group on the right to development, Geneva |
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9-20 January |
Preparatory Committee for the 2006 United Nations conference to review progress made in the implementation of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, first meeting, New York |
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9-27 January |
Committee on the Rights of the Child, forty-first session, Geneva |
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11-13 January |
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Working Group on Communications under the Optional Protocol to the Convention, New York |
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12 January |
States Parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, twenty-first meeting, New York |
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13 January, once every fortnight thereafter |
Military Staff Committee, New York |
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16-19 January |
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Executive Board, first regular session, New York |
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16 January-3 February |
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, thirty-fourth session, New York |
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16 January-3 February |
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Committee, Montreal |
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17 January |
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Programme and Budget Committee, Vienna |
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19-27 January |
Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, regular session, New York |
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20 January |
Open-ended Working Group for the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament, organizational session, New York |
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20, 23 January |
Joint Meeting of the Executive Boards of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UNICEF and World Food Programme (WFP), New York |
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20-24 January |
WFP, Executive Board, first regular session, Rome |
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20 January-3 February |
Committee on the Rights of the Child, pre-sessional working group, Geneva |
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23-27 January |
United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Arbitration, New York |
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23-28 January |
World Health Organization (WHO), Executive Board, Geneva |
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23 January-31 March |
Conference on Disarmament, first part, Geneva |
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24-27 January |
UNDP and UNFPA, Executive Board, first regular session, New York |
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30 January-3 February |
Panel of Governmental Experts on Verification in All its Aspects, first session, New York |
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30 January-3 February |
UNCITRAL, Working Group on Security Interests, New York |
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30 January-3 February |
United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Board of Trustees, Geneva |
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30 January-3 February |
International Narcotics Control Board, eighty-fifth session, Vienna |
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