ORG/1288

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN SEPTEMBER

The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in September, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

26 July-8 September Conference on Disarmament (third part), Geneva

23 August-15 September Universal Postal Union (UPU) -- Universal Postal Congress, Beijing

30 August-1 September Committee on Conferences, New York

30 August-3 September Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (sixth session), New York

30 August-3 September Commission on Human Rights - - Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (fifty- eighth session), Geneva

30 August-10 September Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group B, Vienna

Meetings beginning in September:

September United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) -- Advisory Commission, Amman

September United Nations Institute for Training and (2-3 days) Research (UNITAR) -- Board of Trustees (thirty-seventh session, second part), Geneva

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6-17 September United Nations Conference on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) -- Working Group on Electronic Commerce (thirty-fifth session), Vienna

7-10 September United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) -- Executive Board (second regular session), New York

8-9 September International Fund for Agriculture and Development (IFAD) -- Executive Board, Rome

9-10 September Commission on Sustainable Development (resumed session), New York

13-14 September Investments Committee, New York

13-17 September Executive Board of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (third regular session), New York

13-17 September Commission on Human Rights - - Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (twenty-fifty session), Geneva

13-17 September Committee on Human Rights -- Open-ended Working Group on the right of development, Geneva

13-17 September Commission on the Rights of the Child -- Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva

13 September-8 October Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (sixteenth session), Geneva

20-24 September United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities (fourth session), Geneva

20-24 September International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) � Board of Governors, Vienna

20-29 September World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) -- Assemblies of Member States, Geneva

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20 September-8 October Committee on the Rights of the Child (twenty-second session), Geneva

27-28 September General Assembly, special session for the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, New York

27 September-1 October International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- General Conference, Vienna

27 September-1 October United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Working Party on the Medium-term Plan and the Programme Budget (thirty- fourth session), Geneva

27 September-8 October Working Group on the Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Geneva

28-30 September International Monetary Fund/World Bank -- Joint annual meetings of the Boards of Governors, Washington, D.C.

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

7 September-22 December Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

14 September-December General Assembly (fifty-fourth session), New York

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