30/08/2002
Press Release
United Nations
ORG/1357

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN SEPTEMBER 2002


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


Meetings continued from previous month:


29 July-13 September��������������� Conference on Disarmament, third part, Geneva


26 August-4 September�������������� World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg


26 August-13 September������������� Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group B and informal/expert meetings, Vienna


27 August-5 September�������������� Eighth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names, Berlin


Meetings beginning in September:


September�������������������������� Security Council, Governing Council of the

(3 days)��������������������������� United Nations Compensation Commission, established pursuant to Security Council resolution 692 (1991), forty-fifth session, Geneva


September�������������������������� Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, Geneva


September�������������������������� United Nations Relief and Works Agency for

(1 day)���������������������������� Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Advisory Commission, Amman


September/October������������������ United Nations Staff Pension Committee (1 meeting), New York


September/October������������������ World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Assemblies of Member States, Geneva



September/October������������������ Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Subcommission on

(1 week)��������������������������� Illicit Drug Traffic and Related Matters in the Near and Middle East, Tehran


3-13 September��������������������� Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court, first meeting (tentative date, New York


3 September-20 December������������ Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York


4-5 September���������������������� International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Executive Board, Rome


6 September������������������������ United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, twenty-first session (also 26 August), Berlin


9 September������������������������ Twenty-first Meeting of States Parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, New York


9-12 September��������������������� International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna


9-13 September��������������������� Committee on Conferences, (9,11 and 13 September), New York


9-13 September��������������������� Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, thirty-fourth session, Geneva


9-13 September��������������������� United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Privately Financed Infrastructure Projects, fifth session, Vienna


9-13 September��������������������� Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads of national drug law enforcement agencies, African region, Nairobi


10 September����������������������� United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Committee of Permanent Representatives, eightieth meeting, Nairobi


10-13 September�������������������� Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague


10 September-December�������������� General Assembly, fifty-seventh session, New York


16 September����������������������� General Assembly, high-level plenary meeting on the review and appraisal of the New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, New York


16-20 September�������������������� UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund), Executive Board, second regular session, New York


16-20 September ������������������� Fourth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, Geneva


16-20 September�������������������� United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Working Party on the medium-term plan and the programme budget, Geneva


16-20 September�������������������� International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), General Conference, Vienna


16-20 September�������������������� United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Transport Law, tenth session, Vienna


16 September-4 October������������� Committee on the Rights of the Child, thirty-first session, Geneva


19 September����������������������� Committee of Permanent Representatives to UN-Habitat, Nairobi


23 September����������������������� International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna


23-24 September�������������������� Investments Committee, New York


23-24 September�������������������� United Nations North American meeting in support of the Palestinian people, New York


23-27 September�������������������� Executive Board of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), second regular session, New York


24-25 September�������������������� United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Programme and Budget Committee, eighteenth session, Vienna


24-26 September�������������������� Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole on the final review and appraisal of the New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, substantive session (also 7-11 October), New York


25-27 September�������������������� United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting of the Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues, Geneva


30 September-3 October������������� Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group A and informal expert meetings, Vienna


30 September-4 October������������� United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Executive Committee, fifty-third session, Geneva


30 September-11 October������������ Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against Corruption, third session, Vienna


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