TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN OCTOBER 2002
The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in October, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:
Meetings continued from previous month:
September/October����� United Nations Staff Pension Committee
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23 September-1 October����� World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Assemblies of Member States, Geneva
3 September-20 December����� Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York
10 September-December����� General Assembly, fifty-seventh session, New York
16 September-4 October����� Committee on the Rights of the Child, thirty-first session, 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
Meetings beginning in October:
October���������������������������� United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Executive Board, Paris
1-2 October������������������������ International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank, joint annual meetings of the Boards of Governors, Washington, D.C.
1-3 October������������������������ Security Council, Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, established pursuant to Security Council resolution 692 (1991), forty-fifth session, Geneva
2-4 October������������������������ United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting on environmental requirements and international trade, Geneva
7-11 October����� 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 24-26 September), New York
7-11 October����� Committee on the Rights of the Child, pre-sessional working group, Geneva
7-11 October����� Human Rights Committee, Working Group on Communications, Geneva
7-11 October����� United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Arbitration, thirty-seventh session, Vienna
7-11 October����� Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, seventh session, The Hague
7-18 October����� Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on the Right to Development, Geneva
7-18 October����� United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Trade and Development Board, forty-ninth session, Geneva
7-25 October����� International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Committee, Montreal
14-18 October����� United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Electronic Commerce, fortieth session, Vienna
14-18 October����� Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Subcommission on Illicit Drug Traffic and Related Matters in the Near and Middle East, Tehran
14 October-1 November����� Human Rights Committee, seventy-sixth session, Geneva
15-18 October����� Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads of national drug law enforcement agencies, Latin America and the Caribbean region, Lima
16 October������������������������� World Food Day, Rome
16-18 October����� Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Meeting of Experts, Johannesburg
19-21 October����� Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Conference of African Ministers of Finance and Ministers of Economic Development and Planning, thirty-fifth session of the Commission, Johannesburg
21-25 October����� Executive Board of World Food Programme (WFP), third regular session, Rome
23 October-1 November����� United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Conference of the Parties to the Convention, eighth session, and meetings of subsidiary bodies, New Delhi
28 October-2 November����� Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Council, Rome
28 October-29 November����� United Nations Administrative Tribunal, New York
28 October-30 October����� United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting of the Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development, Geneva
29 October-31 October����� Universal Postal Union (UPU), Strategic Conference, Geneva
30 October-15 November����� International Narcotics Control Board, seventy-fifth session, Vienna
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