ORG/1298

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MARCH 2000

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

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

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

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

28 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

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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

Meetings beginning in March:

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

March/April United Nations Staff Pension Committee, New York

1-3 March United Nations Asian Meeting on the Question of Palestine, Hanoi

3-17 March Commission on the Status of Women acting as the preparatory committee for the special session of the General Assembly entitled: �Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century, New York

6-10 March Human Rights Committee �- Working Group on Communications, New York

6-10 March Group of Governmental Experts on the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms, New York

6-10 March Commission on Sustainable Development -� Ad Hoc Open-ended Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Energy and Sustainable Development, New York

6-10 March Security Council �- Governing Council of the (4 days) United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolution 687 (1991) (thirty-fifth session), Geneva

6-15 March Commission on Narcotic Drugs (forty-third session), Vienna

6-24 March Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (fifty- sixth session), Geneva

7-10 March Committee of the Whole of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Vienna

13-17 March Commission on Human Rights �- Open-ended working group on the right to development, Geneva

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13-31 March Human Rights Committee (sixty-eighth session), New York

13-31 March 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 (nineteenth session), Geneva

13-31 March Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court (fourth session), New York

13-31 March General Assembly � Fifth Committee (resumed fifty-fourth session), New York

16-31 March International Labour Organization (ILO) -� Governing Body and its committees (277th session), Geneva

20 March International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- Board of Governors, Vienna

20-24 March United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -� Working Party on the Medium-term Plan and the Programme Budget (thirty-fifth session), Geneva

20-31 March United Nations Conference on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) -� Working Group on Arbitration (thirty-second session), Vienna

20-31 March Assembly of the International Seabed Authority (sixth session), Kingston

20 March-27 April Commission on Human Rights (fifty-sixth session), Geneva

27-31 March Commission on Population and Development (thirty-third session), New York

27 March-7 April Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space �- Legal Subcommittee (thirty-ninth session), Vienna

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