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:

January

Consultative Committee on the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), forty-sixth session, New York

January/February
(1 week)

Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Situations, Geneva

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

9 January

Economic and Social Council, election of Bureau, New York

9-13 January

Commission on Human Rights, open-ended working group on the right to development, Geneva

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

9-27 January

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

11-13 January

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Working Group on Communications under the Optional Protocol to the Convention, New York

12 January

States Parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, twenty-first meeting, New York

13 January, once every fortnight thereafter

Military Staff Committee, New York

16-19 January

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Executive Board, first regular session, New York

16 January-3 February

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, thirty-fourth session, New York

16 January-3 February

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Committee, Montreal

17 January

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Programme and Budget Committee, Vienna

19-27 January

Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, regular session, New York

20 January

Open-ended Working Group for the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament, organizational session, New York

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

20-24 January

WFP, Executive Board, first regular session, Rome

20 January-3 February

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

23-27 January

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Arbitration, New York

23-28 January

World Health Organization (WHO), Executive Board, Geneva

23 January-31 March

Conference on Disarmament, first part, Geneva

24-27 January

UNDP and UNFPA, Executive Board, first regular session, New York

30 January-3 February

Panel of Governmental Experts on Verification in All its Aspects, first session, New York

30 January-3 February

UNCITRAL, Working Group on Security Interests, New York

30 January-3 February

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

30 January-3 February

International Narcotics Control Board, eighty-fifth session, Vienna

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