ORG/1213

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN FEBRUARY

1 February 1996


Press Release
ORG/1213


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN FEBRUARY

19960201 The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held beginning in February including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous months:

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

22 January-29 March Conference on Disarmament (first part) Geneva

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

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

29 January-9 February Commission on Human Rights -- 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

Meetings beginning in February:

February Special Committee on the Situation with (1-2 meetings) regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (organizational session), New York

February Scientific and Technical Committee on the (1 week) International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (seventh session), Geneva

February/March Administrative Committee on Coordination (first regular session), Geneva

1 February-29 March Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

5-16 February Preparatory Committee for the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), third session, New York

5-16 February Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for the Elaboration of an International Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa (eighth session), Geneva

6-9 February Economic and Social Council (organizational session), New York

7 February General Assembly's Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary), New York

12-22 February Committee on New and Renewable Sources of Energy and on Energy for Development (second session), New York

12-23 February Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space -- Scientific and Technical Subcommittee (thirty-third session), Vienna

14 February Committee for the United Nations Population Award, New York

19 February-22 March International Civil Aviation Organization Council (147th session), Montreal

21 February-5 March Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization, New York

26 February Investments Committee, New York

26 February-1 March Commission on Population and Development (twenty-ninth session), New York

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26 February-1 March Commission on Sustainable Development -- Intersessional Ad Hoc Working Group on Sectoral Issues, New York

26 February-8 March United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (second session), Geneva

26 February-8 March United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Subsidiary Body for Implementation (second session), Geneva

26 February-8 March United Nations Commission on International Trade Law -- Working Group on Electronic Data Interchange (thirtieth session), Vienna

26 February-15 March Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (forty-eighth session), Geneva

27 February-8 March United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Ad Hoc Group on the Berlin Mandate (third session), Geneva

28 February General Assembly (resumed fiftieth session), New York

29 February Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (ninth session), New York

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