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