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ORG/1217

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN APRIL

29 March 1996


Press Release
ORG/1217


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN APRIL

19960329 The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held beginning in April including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

March/July Special Committee on the Situation with (3-5 meetings per week) regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, New York

18 March-4 April Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space -- Legal Subcommittee (thirty-fifth session), Vienna

18 March-4 April Human Rights Committee (fifty-sixth session), New York

18 March-4 April General Assembly's Fifth Committee, New York

18 March-26 April Commission on Human Rights (fifty-second session), Geneva

25 March-12 April Preparatory Committee on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court (first session), New York

Meetings beginning in April:

April United Nations Staff Pension Committee, (1 day) New York

April Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, Geneva

1-10 April Conference on Disarmament -- Ad Hoc Committee on a Nuclear Test Ban (inter- sessional meetings), Geneva

1-12 April United Nations Commission on International Trade Law -- Working Group on Insolvency Law (nineteenth session), New York

1-26 April Special Committee on Peace-keeping Operations and its Working Group, (substantive session), New York

2-3 April Economic and Social Council, New York

9-12 April United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) -- Executive Board (second regular session), New York

9-12 April Preparatory Committee for the Fourth Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, Geneva

10 April-7 May International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) -- forty-third session, Vienna

15-19 April General Assembly -- resumed fiftieth session on public administration and development, New York

15-20 April Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) (twenty-sixth session), San Jose

15-23 April Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) (fifty- first session), Geneva

15-26 April United Postal Union (UPU) -- Postal Operations Council, Berne

16-19 April Statistical Commission -- Working Group on International Statistical Programmes and Coordination (eighteenth session), New York

16-25 April Commission on Narcotic Drugs (thirty-ninth session), Vienna

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17-24 April Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) (fifty-second session), Bangkok

18-23 April Committee of the Whole of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Vienna

18 April-3 May Commission on Sustainable Development (fourth session), New York

22 April-7 May Disarmament Commission, New York

22 April-10 May International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) -- Committee (148th session), Montreal

22-26 April Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, Geneva

22 April-3 May Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (second resumed session), Geneva

27 April-11 May United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (ninth session), Midrand, South Africa

30 April-3 May Commission on Human Rights -- Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities -- Working Group on Minorities, Geneva

30 April-3 May Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Technical Preparatory Committee of the Whole (seventeenth session), Addis Ababa

30 April-10 May Committee against Torture (sixteenth session), Geneva

30 April-17 May Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (fourteenth session), Geneva

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