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TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN NOVEMBER 19961031The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held beginning in November, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:Meetings continued from previous month: 3 September-December Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), New York 17 September-December General Assembly (fifty-first session), New York October/November United Nations Staff Pension Committee, (1 meeting) New York 21 October-1 November Commission on Human Rights -- Open-ended Working Group to elaborate on a draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples pursuant to General Assembly resolution 49/214 of 23 December 1994, Geneva 21 October-8 November Human Rights Committee (fifty-eighth session), Geneva 28 October-8 November Commission on Human Rights -- Group of experts to elaborate on a strategy for the implementation and promotion of the right to development, Geneva 28 October-15 November International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) (sixty-first session), Vienna 21 October-22 November United Nations Administrative Tribunal, New York Meetings beginning in November: Once every fortnight Military Staff Committee, New York November Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for (1 meeting) the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), New York November Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for (1 meeting) the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), New York November Meeting between the secretariats of the (1 week) United Nations and the Organization of African Unity (OAU), Addis Ababa 4 November United Nations/Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)/World Food Programme (WFP) Pledging Conference, New York 4-5 November United Nations Pledging Conference for Development Activities, New York 4-8 November Commission on Narcotic Drugs -- Meeting of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, Asia and the Pacific Region, Manila 6-8 November United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities (first session), Geneva 7-21 November International Labour Organization (ILO) -- Governing Body and its committees (two hundred sixty-seventh session), Geneva 11-22 November United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) -- Working Group on International Contract Practices (twenty- sixth session), Vienna 11-22 November Committee against Torture (seventeenth session), Geneva - 3 - Press Release ORG/1226 31 October 1996 12 November-13 December International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) -- Council (one hundred forty-ninth session), Montreal 13-14 November Economic and Social Council, resumed substantive session of 1996, New York 13-15 November United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy (fifteenth session), Geneva 13-17 November Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) -- World Food Summit, Rome 13-22 November Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (fiftieth session), Geneva 18-20 November United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) -- Programme and Budget Committee (twelfth session), Vienna 18-22 November United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues (first session), Geneva 18-22 November International Maritime Organization (IMO) -- Council (seventy-seventh session), London 18 November-6 December Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (fifteenth session), Geneva 20-22 November United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) -- Industrial Development Board (sixteenth session), Vienna 25 November Investments Committee, New York 25 November-4 December Panel of External Auditors of the United Nations, the Specialized Agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna - 4 - Press Release ORG/1226 31 October 1996 25 November-13 December Fourth Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, Geneva 26-28 November United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Preparatory Committee for the Review Conference on the United Nations Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences, Geneva 26-29 November International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- Board of Governors -- Technical Assistance and Cooperation Committee, Vienna 27 November-6 December Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (seventeenth session), Geneva 29 November Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People -- Special Meeting in Observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, New York * *** *
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