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ORG/1212

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN JANUARY

2 January 1996


Press Release
ORG/1212


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN JANUARY

19960102 The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held beginning in January, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

January Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group (1 week) on Situations, Geneva

January United Nations Staff Pension Committee, (1 meeting) New York

January/February Commission for Social Development (special (8 days) session), New York

January/February International Research and Training (1 Week) Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) -- Board of Trustees (sixteenth session), Santo Domingo

January/April Conference on Disarmament (first part) (10 weeks) Geneva

8-12 January Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women -- Pre-sessional Working Group, New York

8-19 January Economic and Social Council -- Working Group on the review of the arrangements for consultations with non-governmental organizations, third session, New York

8-26 January Committee on the Rights of the Child (eleventh session), Geneva

8-26 January Ad Hoc Group of Governmental Experts on the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, Geneva

5 January Military Staff Committee, New York (fortnightly)

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15-19 January Executive Board of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (first regular session), New York

15 January-2 February Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (fifteenth session), New York

16 January States Parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (sixteenth meeting), New York

22-26 January United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - - Executive Board (first regular session), New York

25 January Committee for the United Nations Population Award, New York

25 January Economic and Social Council -- Election of Bureau, New York

29 January-2 February Committee on the Rights of the Child -- Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva

29 January-2 February Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (resumed 1995 session), New York

29 January-9 February Commission on the Rights of the Child -- Working Group on a Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, Geneva

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