Note to Correspondents

ORG/1357
2 September 2002

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNIT ED NATIONS
BODIES IN SEPTEMBER 2002

NEW YORK, 30 August (UN Headquarters) -- The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in September, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

29 July-13 September

Conference on Disarmament, third part, Geneva

26 August-4 September

World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg

26 August-13 September

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

27 August-5 September

Eighth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names, Berlin

   

Meetings beginning in September:

 

September
(3 days)

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

September

Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, Geneva

September
(1 day)

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Advisory Commission, Amman

September/October

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

September/October

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Assemblies of Member States, Geneva

September/October
(1 week)

Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Subcommission on Illicit Drug Traffic and Related Matters in the Near and Middle East, Tehran

3-13 September

Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court, first meeting (tentative date, New York

3 September-20 December

Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

4-5 September

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

6 September

United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, twenty-first session (also 26 August), Berlin

9 September

Twenty-first Meeting of States Parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, New York

9-12 September

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna

9-13 September

Committee on Conferences, (9,11 and 13 September),
New York

9-13 September

Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, thirty-fourth session, Geneva

9-13 September

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Privately Financed Infrastructure Projects, fifth session, Vienna

9-13 September

Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads of national drug law enforcement agencies, African region, Nairobi

10 September

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

10-13 September

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

10 September-December

General Assembly, fifty-seventh session, New York

16 September

General Assembly, high-level plenary meeting on the review and appraisal of the New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, New York

16-20 September

UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund), Executive Board, second regular session, New York

16-20 September

Fourth Meeting 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, Geneva

16-20 September

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Working Party on the medium-term plan and the programme budget, Geneva

16-20 September

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), General Conference, Vienna

16-20 September

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

16 September-4 October

Committee on the Rights of the Child, thirty-first session, Geneva

19 September

Committee of Permanent Representatives to UN-Habitat, Nairobi

23 September

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna

23-24 September

Investments Committee, New York

23-24 September

United Nations North American meeting in support of the Palestinian people, New York

23-27 September

Executive Board of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), second regular session, New York

24-25 September

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Programme and Budget Committee, eighteenth session, Vienna

24-26 September

Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole on the final review and appraisal of the New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, substantive session (also 7-11 October),
New York

25-27 September

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting of the Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues, Geneva

30 September-3 October

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

30 September-4 October

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Executive Committee, fifty-third session, Geneva

30 September-11 October

Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against Corruption, third session, Vienna

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