ORG/1208

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN NOVEMBER

31 October 1995


Press Release
ORG/1208


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN NOVEMBER

19951031 The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held beginning in November, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous months:

5 September-December Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

19 September-December General Assembly (fiftieth session), New York

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

16 October-3 November Human Rights Committee (fifty-fifth session), Geneva

20 October-2 November Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) -- Conference (twenty-eighth session), Rome

23 October-3 November International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) -- Council (146th session), Committee phase, Montreal

23 October-22 November United Nations Administrative Tribunal, New York

25 October-16 November United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) -- General Conference (twenty-eighth session), Paris

30 October-3 November United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Standing Committee on Commodities (fourth session), Geneva

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30 October-3 November Board of Trustees of the Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights (fourth session), Geneva

30 October-10 November United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) -- Working Group on Insolvency Law (eighteenth session), Vienna

30 October-16 November International Narcotics Control Board (fifty-ninth session), Vienna

30 October-17 November Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on a draft optional protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Geneva

30 October-17 November Committee on the Rights of the Child (tenth session), Geneva

Meetings beginning in November:

November Committee on Non-Governmental (1 day) Organizations, special meeting pursuant to Economic and Social Council resolution 1995/32, New York

November Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly (1 meeting) for the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, New York

November Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly (1 meeting) for the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, New York

1-2 November United Nations Pledging Conference for Development Activities, New York

2-16 November International Labour Organisation (ILO) -- Governing Body and its Committees (264th session), Geneva

3 November FAO -- Council (110th session), Rome

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6-8 November UNCTAD -- Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Tungsten (fourth session), Geneva

6-10 November Meeting between the Secretariats of the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity, Addis Ababa

6-10 November UNCTAD -- Ad Hoc Working Group on Trade, Environment an Development (third session), Geneva

13-17 November UNCTAD -- Standing Committee on Developing Services Sectors: Insurance (third session), Geneva

13-17 November Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes (fortieth session), Rome

13-21 November UNCTAD -- Third United Nations Conference to Review All Aspects of the Multilaterally Agreed Equitable Principles and Rules for the Control of Restrictive Business Practices, Geneva

13-24 November UNCITRAL -- Working Group on International Contract Practices (twenty-fourth session), Vienna

13-24 November International Maritime Organization (IMO) -- Assembly, London

13-24 November Committee against Torture (fifteenth session), Geneva

13-24 November United Nations Commission on International Trade Law -- Working Group on International Contract Practices (twenty- fourth session), Vienna

13 November-15 December International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) -- Council, (146th session), Council Phase, Montreal

18-22 November Commission on Narcotic Drugs -- Subcommission on Illicit Drug Traffic and Related Matters in the Near and Middle East, Amman

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20-24 November Committee on the Rights of the Child -- Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva

20 November-1 December Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on a draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, Geneva

20 November-8 December Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (thirteenth extraordinary session), Geneva

22 November-1 December Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (fourteenth session), Geneva

27 November Investments Committee, New York

27 November-1 December UNCTAD -- Ad Hoc Working Group to Explore the Issue of Structural Adjustment for the Transition to Disarmament, Geneva

27 November-1 December Meetings of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, New York

28 November-1 December International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- Board of Governors -- Technical Assistance and Cooperation Committee, Vienna

29 November 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

29 November Fifth meeting of States Parties to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Geneva

29 November-8 December Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (forty-seventh session), Geneva

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