ORG/1262

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN FEBRUARY

Meetings continued from previous month:

January/February Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, New (4 days) York

January/February Special Committee on the Situation with (as required) regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, New York

19 January-27 March Conference on Disarmament, first part, Geneva

19 January-6 February International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Committee (153rd session), Montreal

19 January-6 February Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, (eighteenth session), New York

26 January-6 February Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization, New York

Meetings beginning in February:

February United Nations Conference on Trade and (1 day) Development (UNCTAD) -- Working Party on the Medium-term Plan and the Programme Budget (thirty-first session), Geneva

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

February International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Governing Council, Rome

February Inter-sessional Open-ended (1 week) Intergovernmental Group of Experts for the purpose of elaborating a preliminary draft of a possible comprehensive international convention against organized transnational crime, Warsaw

February United Nations Environment Programme (2 days) (UNEP) -- High-Level Committee of Ministers and Officials, Nairobi

February Commission on Narcotic Drugs -- (1 week) Subcommission on Illicit Drug Traffic and Related Matters in the Near and Middle East, (a capital in the region)

February/March Committee for the United Nations (2 days) Population Award, New York

2-3 February Consultations of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People with representatives of NGO coordinating committees on the question of Palestine, New York

2-13 February Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts, Geneva

3-6 February Economic and Social Council (organizational session), New York

3 February-27 March Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

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4-6 February Executive Board of the World Food Programme (first regular session), Rome

9-20 February Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space -- Scientific and Technical Subcommittee (thirty-fifth session), Geneva

10-13 February Statistical Commission -- Working Group on International Statistical Programmes and Coordination (nineteenth session), New York

10-20 February Commission for Social Development (thirty- sixth session), New York

11-13 February UNCTAD -- Meeting of Experts within the framework of the Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues, Geneva

16-20 February Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Migrants and Human Rights (second session), Geneva

16-20 February Commission on Human Rights -- Open-ended Working Group established to elaborate policy guidelines on the effects of structural adjustment programmes on the full enjoyment of human rights, Geneva

16-27 February Ad Hoc Committee established by General Assembly resolution 51/210, New York

17 February Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (tenth session), New York

23-24 February Consultative Committee on the United Nations Development Fund for Women (thirty-eighth session), New York

23-24 February Investments Committee, Mexico City

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23-27 February Commission on Population and Development (thirty-first session), New York

23 February-4 March Commission on Human Rights -- Open-ended Working Group on a draft declaration on the right and responsibility of individuals, groups and organizations of society to promote and protect universally recognized human rights and freedoms, Geneva

25-27 February Meeting of Chairpersons of Human Rights Treaty Bodies (extraordinary session), Geneva

23 February-20 March ICAO Council, (153rd session), Montreal

24-26 February United Nations Conference in Support of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and European NGO Symposium on the Question of Palestine, Brussels.

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