TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN JANUARY 2001

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

Meetings beginning in January:

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 (twenty-third session), Geneva

January���������������������������� Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, New

(4 days)��������������������������� York

January���������������������������� United Nations Staff Pension Committee, New

(1 meeting)������������������������ York

January/February������������������� Commission on Human Rights, open-ended

(1 week)��������������������������� working group on the right to development, Geneva

5 January, once�������������������� Military Staff Committee, New York

every fortnight thereafter

8-19 January����������������������� Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (second session), New York

8-19 January����������������������� Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (resumed 2000 session), New York

8-26 January����������������������� Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (fifty-eighth session), Geneva

8-26 January����������������������� Committee on the Rights of the Child (twenty-sixth session), Geneva

9 January�������������������������� Economic and Social Council, election of Bureau, New York

15-19 January���������������������� United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Working Party on the Medium-term Plan and the Programme Budget (thirty-seventh session), Geneva

15-26 January���������������������� Post-Phase V Working Group on Reimbursement of Contingent-Owned Equipment, New York

15 January-2 February�������������� Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (twenty-fourth session), New York

15 January-23 March���������������� Conference on Disarmament (first part), Geneva

22-25 January���������������������� Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery (seventh session), Geneva

22-26 January���������������������� United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Executive Board (first regular session), New York

22-26 January���������������������� Seventh United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for the Americas, New York

22-26 January���������������������� United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development, Geneva

29 January������������������������� Joint Meeting of the Executive Boards of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP), New York

29 January-2 February�������������� Committee on the Rights of the Child, Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva

29 January-2 February�������������� Preparatory Committee for the Special Session of the General Assembly in 2001 for Follow-up to the World Summit for Children (second substantive session), New York

29 January-9 February�������������� Executive Board of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (first regular session), New York

29 January-23 February������������� Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and its Working Group, substantive session, New York

30 January-2 February�������������� Economic and Social Council (organizational session), New York��

* *** *

United Nations