ORG/1304

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN JUNE 2000

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

May/June United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization �- Executive Board (158th session), Paris

1 May-9 June International Law Commission (fifty second session), Geneva

8 May-2 June General Assembly -- Fifth Committee (resumed fifty-fourth session), New York

15 May-2 June Committee on the Rights of the Child (twenty-fourth session), Geneva

22 May-2 June Group of Governmental Experts on the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms, New York

22 May-7 July Conference on Disarmament (second part), Geneva

23 May-16 June International Civil Aviation Organization -� Council (160th session), Montreal

30 May-2 June Preparatory Committee for the special session of the General Assembly to review the achievement of the goals of the world Summit for Children (first substantive session), New York

30 May-2 June First Open-ended Consultative Process on Ocean Affairs, New York

30 May-15 June International Labour Organization (ILO) �- General Conference (eighty-eighth session) Geneva

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Meetings beginning in June

June Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, (1 day) organizational session, New York

June International Maritime Organization (IMO) -� Council (eighty-fourth session), London

June/July Special Committee on the Situation with (6-8 meetings per week, regard to the Implementation of the up to 30 meeting) Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, New York

1-7 June Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) -� Executive Board (158th session), Bangkok

2-9 June Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), Geneva

5-9 June Committee on the Rights of the Child �- Pre-session Working Group, Geneva

5-9 June Meeting of persons chairing human rights treaty bodies, Geneva

5-9 June General Assembly, special session entitled �Women 2000: gender equality , development and peace for the twenty-first century�, New York

5-9 June International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) �- Board of Governors, Vienna

5-16 June Open-ended Intergovernmental Ad Hoc Committee for the Purpose of Elaborating a Comprehensive International Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (ninth meeting), Vienna

5-30 June Committee on Contributions (sixtieth session), New York

5-30 June Committee for Programme and Coordination (fortieth session, first part), New York

7-16 June Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (forty-third session), Vienna

12-16 June ACABQ, Rome 12-16 June United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, meetings of subsidiary bodies of the Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention, Bonn

12-23 June Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, New York

12-30 June Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (twenty-third session), New York

12-30 June Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court (fifth session), New York

12 June-7 July United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (thirty-third session), New York

13-15 June Security Council � Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolution 687 (1991) (thirty-sixth session), Geneva

13-16 June United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board -� Committee of Actuaries, New York

13-23 June Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Geneva

14-23 June Commission on Human Rights -� Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights -� Working group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Geneva

16 June ILO -� Governing Body and its committees (278th session), Geneva

17-20 June ACABQ, Kosovo

19-21 June Board of Trustees of the Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights (thirteenth session), Geneva

19-21 June United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -� Expert Meeting on Mergers and Acquisitions, Geneva

19-23 June Commission on Narcotic Drugs �-Subcommission in Illicit Drug Traffic and Related Matters in the Near and Middle East, Turkey

19-23 June Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization �- Working Group A, Vienna

20-21 June United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People, Cairo

21-23 June ACABQ, Vienna

26-30 June General Assembly, special session entitled: �World Summit for Social Development and beyond: achieving social development for all in a globalizing world�, Geneva

26 June-7 July Disarmament Commission, New York

27-28 June Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague

28-30 June United Nations Board of Auditors, New York

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