TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN DECEMBER 2003
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:
2 September-19 December������������ Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York
16 September-December�������������� General Assembly, fifty-eighth session, New York
10 November-5 December����� International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, Montreal
24 November-5 December����� International Maritime Organization (IMO), Assembly, London
29 November-10 December������������ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Conference, Rome
Meetings beginning in December:
1 December������������������������� Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Special Meeting in Observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, New York
1-2 December����������������������� United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Executive Board, extraordinary budgetary session, New York
1-5 December����������������������� Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, pre-sessional working group, Geneva
1-5 December����������������������� United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), General Conference, tenth session, Vienna
1-5 December����������������������� United Nations University (UNU), Council, fiftieth session, Tokyo
1-12 December���������������������� United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Conference of the Parties to the Convention, ninth session, and meetings of subsidiary bodies, Milan
2-5 December����������������������� Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague
3 December������������������������� Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, New York
3-10 December���������������������� Subcommittee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Geneva
4-5 December����������������������� Preparatory process meetings for the eleventh session of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva
5 December������������������������� IMO, Council, London
8 December������������������������� Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva
8-12 December���������������������� Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads of national drug law enforcement agencies, Asia and the Pacific region, Bangkok
9 December������������������������� United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Committee of Permanent Representatives, eighty-fifth meeting, Nairobi
9-11 December���������������������� High-level political conference for the purpose of signing the United Nations convention against corruption, Merida, Mexico
10-12 December����� International Telecommunication Union (ITU), World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva
10-12 December��������������������� Subcommittee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, Geneva
11 December������������������������ First meeting of the States Parties to the International Convention on the Right of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, New York
11 December������������������������ FAO, Council, Rome
15-19 December��������������������� Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, resumed session, New York
15-19 December��������������������� Ad Hoc Group of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters, Geneva
16-18 December��������������������� Security Council, Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolution 692 (1991), fiftieth session, Geneva
16-18 December��������������������� United Nations regional meeting for Asia and the Pacific on the question of Palestine, Beijing
17-18 December����� International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Executive Board, Rome
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