TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN AUGUST
The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in August, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:
Meetings continued from previous month:
July/August������������������������ General Assembly, Fourth Committee (resumed
(2 days)��������������������������� fifty-fifth session), New York
2 July-10 August������������������� International Law Commission (fifty-third session, second part), Geneva
23 July–3 August������������������� United Nations Conference on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Insolvency Law (twenty-fourth session),
����������������������������������� New York
23 July-17 August������������������ 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-fourth session), Geneva
30 July-3 August������������������� Panel of Governmental Experts on Missiles in All Their Aspects (first session), New York
30 July-3 August������������������� United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), meeting of governmental experts from landlocked and transit developing countries and representatives of donor countries and financial and development institutions, New York
30 July-3 August������������������� Open-ended expert group to examine and prepare draft terms of reference for a legal instrument against corruption, Vienna
30 July-10 August������������������ Commission on Human Rights acting as the Preparatory Committee for the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Tolerance, third session, Geneva
30 July-17 August������������������ Commission on Human Rights, Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (fifty-third session), Geneva
30 July-17 August������������������ Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination (fifty-ninth session), Geneva
30 July–14 September��������������� Conference on Disarmament (third part), Geneva
Meetings beginning in August:
August����������������������������� United Nations international meeting on the
(3 days)��������������������������� question of Palestine, location to be determined
13-17 August����������������������� Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, sixty-fourth session, Geneva
13-31 August����������������������� Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, extraordinary session, Geneva
20-31 August����������������������� Commission on Human Rights, Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Working Group on Communications, Geneva
21-24 August����������������������� Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, fifteenth session, Vienna
27-29 August����������������������� Committee on Conferences, substantive session, New York
27 August-14 September������������� Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group B, and informal/expert meetings, Vienna
31 August-7 September�������������� World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Durban
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