TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN FEBRUARY 2001
The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in February, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:
Meetings continued from previous month:
15 January-2 February�������������� International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Committee (162nd session), Montreal
22 January-30 March���������������� Conference on Disarmament, first part, Geneva
29 January-2 February�������������� Committee on the Rights of the Child, Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva
29 January-2 February�������������� Commission on Human Rights, open-ended working group on the right to development, Geneva
29 January-2 February�������������� World Health Organization (WHO), Executive Board (107th session), Geneva
29 January-2 February�������������� Commission on Human Rights, expert meeting on the issue of mercenaries, 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-6 February�������������� Executive Board of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (first regular session), New York
30 January-2 February�������������� Economic and Social Council (organizational session), New York��
31 January-2 February�������������� Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, New York
Meetings beginning in February:
February��������������������������� Consultative Committee on the United Nations Development Fund for Women (forty-first session, New York
February��������������������������� United Nations Latin American and Caribbean meeting on the question of Palestine (venue to be determined)
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
February/April��������������������� Committee for the United Nations
(2 days)��������������������������� Population Award, New York���
5-9 February����������������������� International Narcotics Control Board (seventieth session, Vienna
5-9 February����������������������� Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Pre-sessional Working Group, New York
5-9 February����������������������� Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee for the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (second session), New York
5-9 February����������������������� Group of Governmental Experts on the feasibility study of small arms, New York
5-9 February����������������������� Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Situations, Geneva
5-9 February����������������������� United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Governing Council (twenty-first session), Nairobi
5-16 February���������������������� Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group B, and informal/expert meetings, Vienna
6 February-30 March���������������� Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York
12 February������������������������ United Nations Forum on Forests (organizational session), New York
12-16 February��������������������� Commission on Human Settlements (eighteenth session), Nairobi
12-16 February��������������������� United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues, Geneva
12-16 February��������������������� Executive Board of World Food Programme (WFP) (first regular session), Rome
12-23 February��������������������� Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Scientific and Technical Subcommittee (thirty-eighth session), Vienna
12-23 February��������������������� Commission on Human Rights, open-ended working group on a draft optional protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Geneva
12-23 February��������������������� Ad Hoc Group of States to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (twenty-second session), Geneva
12-23 February��������������������� Preparatory Committee for the high-level international intergovernmental event on financing for development (second substantive session), New York
12-23 February��������������������� Ad Hoc Committee established by General Assembly resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996, New York
13-23 February��������������������� Commission for Social Development (thirty-ninth session), New York
19-20 February��������������������� Investments Committee, Singapore
19-23 February��������������������� United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities, Geneva
19-23 February��������������������� Commission on Human Settlements acting as the preparatory committee for the special session of the General Assembly for an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the Habitat Agenda (second substantive session), Nairobi
19 February-16 March��������������� International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) (162nd session), Montreal
20-21 February��������������������� International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Governing Council, Rome
20-21 February��������������������� United Nations seminar on assistance to the Palestinian people, Vienna
20-23 February��������������������� Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague
26 February������������������������ Eighth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, New York
26 February-2 March���������������� Commission for Social Development acting as the preparatory committee for the Second World Assembly on Ageing, New York
26 February-2 March���������������� Ad Hoc Committee on the elaboration of a Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, Vienna
26 February-2 March���������������� Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group A, and informal/expert meetings, Vienna
26 February-2 March���������������� Commission on Sustainable Development, Ad Hoc Open-ended Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Energy and Sustainable Development, New York
26 February-2 March���������������� Open-ended consultations of the plenary of the General Assembly on the special session on HIV/AIDS, New York
26 February-9 March���������������� Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court, New York
26 February-9 March���������������� Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Structural Adjustment, Geneva
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