30/03/2001
Press Release
ORG/1327

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN APRIL 2001


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


Meetings continued from previous month:


March/April������������������������ United Nations Staff Pension Committee

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


12 March-6 April������������������� General Assembly, Fifth Committee, resumed (fifty-fifth session), New York


19 March-6 April������������������� Human Rights Committee (seventy-first session), New York


19 March-27 April������������������ Commission on Human Rights (fifty-seventh session), Geneva


Meetings beginning in April:


April������������������������������ United Nations African meeting on the question

(3 days)��������������������������� of Palestine (to be determined)


April������������������������������ Commission on Sustainable Development

(1 meeting)������������������������ (organizational session), New York


April������������������������������ United Nations Institute for Training and

(1 week)��������������������������� Research (UNITAR), Board of Trustees (thirty-ninth session), Geneva


April/May�������������������������� Economic and Social Council, special

(1 day)���������������������������� high-level meeting with the Bretton Woods institutions, New York


2-5 April�������������������������� Advisory Group of the United Nations Trust Fund for the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People, Geneva


2-6 April�������������������������� Second meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the Second Review Conference of the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which

����������������������������������� May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, Geneva


2-6 April�������������������������� Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee for the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (third session),� New York


2-6 April�������������������������� Commission on Population and Development (thirty-fourth session), New York


2-6 April�������������������������� Committee for Development Policy (third session), New York


2-12 April������������������������� Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization, New York


2-12 April������������������������� Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Legal Subcommittee (fortieth session), Vienna


3-6 April�������������������������� Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague


9 April���������������������������� Committee for the United Nations Population Award, New York


9-10 April������������������������� Special meeting of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, New York


9-27 April������������������������� Disarmament Commission, New York


16-27 April ����������������������� Commission on Sustainable Development (ninth session), New York


17 April-4 May��������������������� International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Committee, (163rd session), Montreal


18-20 April������������������������ Group of Governmental Experts to prepare a United Nations study on disarmament and non-proliferation education (first session),��� New York


18-27 April������������������������ United Postal Union (UPU), Postal Operations Council, Berne


19-25 April������������������������ Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), (fifty-seventh session), Bangkok


23-27 April������������������������ Ad Hoc Group of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters, New York

23-27 April������������������������ United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (fiftieth session), Vienna


23-27 April������������������������ Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), Technical Committee, Beirut


23 April-11 May�������������������� Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (twenty-fourth session), Geneva


23 April-11 May�������������������� 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 (twenty-third session), Geneva


23 April-1 June�������������������� International Law Commission (fifty-third session, first part), Geneva


24-27 April������������������������ Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (fourteenth session), Vienna


25-26 April������������������������ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Executive Board, Rome


25-27 April������������������������ Preparatory Committee for the Fifth Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, Geneva


30 April-2 May��������������������� Commission on Sustainable Development (tenth session), meeting of the Commission as the preparatory committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, New York


30 April-4 May��������������������� Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (sixty-third) session, New York


30 April-4 May��������������������� Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and its Working Group (substantive session), New York


30 April-11 May�������������������� Committee on Information (twenty-third session), New York


30 April-11 May�������������������� Preparatory Committee for the high-level international intergovernmental event on financing for development (third substantive session), New York


30 April-18 May�������������������� Committee against Torture (twenty-sixth session), Geneva


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