ORG/1424
            1 October 2004

Tentative Schedule of Meetings of United Nations Bodies in October 2004

NEW YORK, 30 September (UN Headquarters) -- The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in October, 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

13 September-1 October

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

14 September-December

General Assembly, fifty-ninth session, New York

15 September-5 October

Universal Postal Union (UPU) Congress, Bucharest

27 September-1 October

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Security Interests, Vienna

27 September-5 October

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

28 September-14 October

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

Meetings beginning in October:

October

Universal Postal Union (UPU), Council of Administration, Berne

October (1 day)

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

October (1 day)

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

October/November

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

4-5 October

Annual meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, D.C.

4-8 October

Committee on the Rights of the Child, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

4-8 October

Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive  Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, Working Group A, Vienna

4-8 October

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Executive Committee, fifty-fifth session, Geneva

4-15 October

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Trade and Development Board, fifty-first session, Geneva

11-12 October

Preparatory Committee for the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, Geneva

11-14 October

World Food Programme (WFP), Executive Board, third regular session, Rome

11-15 October

Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads of national drug law enforcement agencies, Latin America and the Caribbean region, Mexico City

11-15 October

Human Rights Committee, pre-sessional working group on Communications, eighty-second session, Geneva

11-22 October

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Electronic Commerce, Vienna

12-15 October

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

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

27-29 October

UNCTAD, Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting, Geneva

27 October-11 November

International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), eighty-first session, Vienna

29-30 October

United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, second regular session, New York

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