30/11/2001
Press Release
ORG/1341

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN DECEMBER 2001


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


Meetings continued from previous month:


4 September-21 December������������ Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York


11 September-December�������������� General Assembly, fifty-sixth session, New York


November/December������������������ United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),

(3 days)��������������������������� Inter-Agency Consultative Meeting, New York


19 November-7 December������������� 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


19 November-14 December������������ International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, one hundred and sixty-fourth session, Montreal


26 November-5 December������������� Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, thirty-second session, Geneva


27 November-4 December������������� Panel of External Auditors of the United Nations, the Specialized Agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), location to be determined


Meetings beginning in December:


December��������������������������� Disarmament Commission, organizational session

(2 days)��������������������������� New York


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December��������������������������� Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for

(1 meeting)������������������������ the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva


3-7 December����������������������� Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva


3-7 December����������������������� United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), General Conference, ninth session, Vienna


3-7 December����������������������� United Nations University (UNU), Council, forty-eighth session, Tokyo


3-14 December���������������������� Subcommittee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and Subcommittee of Experts on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, Geneva


3-14 December���������������������� United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Insolvency Law, twenty-fifth session, Vienna


4-7 December����������������������� Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague


5 December������������������������� United Nations Board of Auditors, special session, location to be determined


5-6 December����������������������� International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Executive Board, Rome


10 December������������������������ Annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II 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


10 December������������������������ United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Committee of Permanent Representatives, seventy-seventh meeting, Nairobi


10-14 December��������������������� United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Executive Board, second regular and extraordinary budgetary session, New York


10-14 December��������������������� United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development, Geneva


11-13 December��������������������� Security Council, Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolution 692 (1991), forty-second session, Geneva


11-21 December��������������������� 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


12-14 December��������������������� Commission on Narcotic Drugs, resumed forty-fourth session, Vienna


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