ORG/1297

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN FEBRUARY 2000

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

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

31 January-4 February Fifth meeting of the subsidiary body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal

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

Meetings beginning in February

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

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

February Universal Postal Union (UPU) -� Council of Administration, Berne

February UPU -� Postal Operations Council, Berne

February/March Consultative Committee on the United Nations Development Fund for Women (fortieth session), New York

February/March Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, New York

1-4 February Economic and Social Council, organizational session, New York

1 February-31 March Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), New York

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January 2000

7-8 February Preparatory Committee for the special session of the General Assembly to review the achievement of the goals of the World Summit for Children (organizational session), New York

7-10 February Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery (sixth session), Geneva

7-11 February Commission on Human Rights -� Open-ended working group on enhancing the effectiveness of the mechanism of the Commission, Geneva

7-11 February Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women � Pre-sessional Working Group, New York

7-11 February Executive Board of the World Food Programme (WFP) (first regular session), Rome

7-18 February Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space �- Scientific and Technical Subcommittee (thirty-seventh session), Vienna

8-17 February Commission for Social Development (thirty-eighth session), New York

12-19 February United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Bangkok

14-18 February Ad Hoc Committee established by General Assembly resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996, New York

14-23 February Commission on Human Rights -� Open-ended inter-sessional ad hoc working group on a permanent forum for indigenous people in the United Nations system, Geneva

14-25 February United Nations Conference on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) �- Working Group on Electronic Commerce (thirty-sixth session), New York

14 February-10 March Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and its Working Group (substantive session), New York

15-18 February Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague

21-22 February Investments Committee, Paris

21-25 February Commission on Human Rights -� Working Group on Situations, Geneva

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January 2000

21 February-3 March Commission on Sustainable Development -� Inter-sessional ad hoc open- ended working groups, New York

21 February- 3 March Open-ended Intergovernmental Ad Hoc Committee for the Purpose of Elaborating a Comprehensive International Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (eighth meeting), Vienna

21 February-17 March International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) -� Council (159th session), Montreal

22 February and 21 March Committee for the United Nations Population Award, New York

24 February-10 March 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

28 February-2 March Commission on the Status of Women (forty-fourth session, New York

28 February-3 March Preparatory Committee for the Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, (first session), New York

28 February-3 March Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization � Working Group A, Vienna

29 February-3 March Statistical Commission (thirty- first session), New York

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