United Nations

24 January-1 April

Conference on Disarmament, first part, Geneva

February/March

Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, New York

1 February-22 April

Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

14 February-4 March

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

14 February-11 March

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, Montreal

21 February-4 March

Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, forty-third session, Vienna

21 February-11 March

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

28 February-3 March

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

28 February-4 March

Intergovernmental preparatory meeting for the thirteenth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, New York

28 February-4 March

United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, Board of Trustees, Geneva

28 February-11 March

Commission on the Status of Women, forty-ninth session, New York

28 February-11 March

International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), sixtieth session, Bangkok

Meetings beginning in March:

March

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

March(1 day)

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

March/April

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

March/April(2 days)

Committee for the United Nations Population Award, New York

1-4 March

Statistical Commission, thirty-sixth session,New York

3-24 March

International Labour Organization (ILO), Governing Body and its committees, Geneva

7-11 March

Human Rights Committee, Working Group on Communications, New York

7-11 March

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, tenth session, Geneva

7-11 March

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

7-11 March

United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Board of Trustee, Geneva

7-14 March

Commission on Narcotic Drugs, forty-ninth session, Vienna

7-14 March (4 days)

Committee of the Whole of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Vienna

7 March-1 April

General Assembly, Fifth Committee, resumed session, New York

8-10 March

United Nations International meeting on the question of Palestine, Geneva

14-18 March

Committee for Development Policy, seventh session, New York

14-18 March

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities, Geneva

14-24 March

Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization, New York

14 March-1 April

Human Rights Committee, eighty-third session,New York

14 March-22 April

Commission on Human Rights, sixty-first session, Geneva

15-18 March

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

28 March-1 April           

Ad Hoc Committee established by General Assembly resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996, New York

29 March-1 April

Group of Governmental experts to conduct a study on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security, second session, Geneva

29 March-1 April

Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads of national drug law enforcement agencies, African region, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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