ORG/1295

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN JANUARY 2000

The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in January 2000, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings beginning in January:

6 January Military Staff Committee, New York (once every fortnight thereafter)

January Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the (3 weeks) Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (eighteenth session), Geneva

January Commission on Human Rights, working group on (2 weeks) a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts, Geneva

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

January Economic and Social Council, New York (1 day)

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

January Joint Meeting of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA, UNICEF and WFP, New York

January/February Commission on Human Rights, working group on (two weeks) a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, Geneva

10-21 January Open-ended Intergovernmental Ad Hoc Committee for the Purpose of Elaborating a Comprehensive International Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, (seventh meeting), Vienna

10-28 January Committee on the Rights of the Child (twenty-third session), Geneva

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17-21 January United Nations Children�s Fund (UNICEF), Executive Board (first regular session), New York

17 January-24 March Conference on Disarmament, first part, Geneva

17-28 January United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (twentieth session), New York

17-28 January United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) -- Working Group on International Contract Practices (thirty-second session), New York

17-28 January Committee on Non- Governmental Organizations, resumed 1999 session, New York

17 January-4 February Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (twenty-second session), New York

18 January States Parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (eighteenth meeting), New York

24-28 January Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)(first regular session), New York

31 January-4 February Committee on the Rights of the Child �- Pre-sessional working group, Geneva

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