28/03/2002
Press Release
United Nations
ORG/1349

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN APRIL 2002


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


March/April������������������������ United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Committee of Permanent Representatives, seventy-eighth meeting, Nairobi


7 March & 10 April����������������� Committee for the United Nations Population Award, New York


18 March-5 April������������������� Human Rights Committee, seventy-fourth session, New York


18 March-26 April������������������ Commission on Human Rights, fifty-eighth session, Geneva


25 March-5 April������������������� Commission on Sustainable Development acting as the preparatory committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, New York


Meetings beginning in April:


April/May�������������������������� Disarmament Commission (3 weeks), New York


1-5 April�������������������������� Ad Hoc Committee on the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel, New York


1-5 April�������������������������� Commission on Population and Development, thirty-fifth session, New York


1-5 April�������������������������� Panel of Governmental Experts on Missiles in All Their Aspects, second session, New York


2-12 April������������������������� Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, thirty-ninth session, Vienna


3-5 April�������������������������� Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, Geneva


8-12 April������������������������� Committee for Development Policy, fourth session, New York


8-12 April������������������������� Advisory Group of the United Nations Trust Fund for the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People, Geneva


8-12 April������������������������� Second World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid


8-15 April������������������������� Open-ended informal Consultative Process on Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, New York


8-19 April������������������������� Preparatory Committee for the 2005 Review Conference of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, first session, New York


8-19 April������������������������� Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court, New York


8-26 April������������������������� Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, The Hague


9-12 April������������������������� Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, seventeenth session, Vienna


10-11 April������������������������ United Nations System Chief Executive Board for Coordination, first regular session, Rome (FAO Headquarters)


15-26 April������������������������ United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Transport Law, ninth session, New York


15 April-3 May��������������������� International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Committee, Montreal


16-17 April������������������������ United Nations International Meeting in Support of Middle East Peace, Nicosia


16-25 April������������������������ Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, eleventh session, Vienna


16-25 April������������������������ Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, parallel meetings for informal consultations and working groups

����������������������������������� (12 meetings), Vienna


16-26 April������������������������ Meeting of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, New York


18 April��������������������������� United Nations International NGO meeting in Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Nicosia


22-26 April������������������������ Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, sixty-sixth session, New York


22-26 April������������������������ Committee against Torture, pre-sessional working group, Geneva


22 April-2 May��������������������� Committee on Information, twenty-fourth session, New York


22 April-3 May��������������������� International Telecommunications Union, Council, Geneva


22 April-10 May�������������������� International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), fifty-fourth session, Rome (FAO Headquarters)


23 April��������������������������� Special high-level meeting between the Economic and Social Council and the Bretton Woods institutions, New York


23-24 April������������������������ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Executive Board, Rome


29-30 April������������������������ Economic and Social Council, resumed organization session, New York


29 April-2 May��������������������� United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Trade and Development Board, nineteenth special session (mid-term review), Bangkok


29 April-17 May�������������������� Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, twenty-eighth session, Geneva


29 April-17 May�������������������� Committee against Torture, twenty-eighth session, Geneva


29 April-7 June�������������������� International Law Commission, fifty-fourth session, Geneva


30 April-2 May��������������������� United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Board of Trustees, fortieth session, Geneva


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