ORG/1218

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MAY

30 April 1996


Press Release
ORG/1218


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MAY

19960430 The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held beginning in May 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

April/May United Nations Institute for Training and (2-3 days) Research (UNITAR), Board of Trustees (thirty-fourth session, first part), Geneva

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

Meetings beginning in May:

May/June Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

May/June United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Executive Board (149th session), Paris

2 May Committee for Programme and Coordination (organizational session), New York

2-3 May Economic and Social Council (resumed organizational session), New York

6 May Investments Committee, New York

6-8 May Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) -- Conference of Ministers (twenty-second meeting); Commission (thirty-first session), Addis Ababa

6-10 May United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) -- Industrial Development Board (fifteenth session), Vienna

6-17 May Committee on Information (eighteenth session), New York

6-17 May Committee on Natural Resources (third session), New York

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6-17 May Executive Board of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (annual session), Geneva

6-31 May General Assembly (resumed fiftieth session), Fifth Committee (resumed session, second part), New York

6 May-26 July International Law Commission (forty-eighth session), Geneva

13-15 May International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Administrative and Budgetary Committee, Vienna

13-17 May Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (first part), New York

13-24 May International Narcotics Control Board (sixtieth session), Vienna

13 May-28 June Conference on Disarmament (second part), Geneva

20-24 May Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (fifteenth session), Geneva

20-24 May Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva

20-25 May World Health Organization (WHO) -- World Health Assembly (forty-ninth session), Geneva

20-31 May Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture (fifteenth session), Geneva

20 May-7 June Committee on the Rights of the Child (twelfth session), Geneva

21-31 May Commission for Social Development (special session), New York

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21-31 May Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (fifth session), Vienna

21-31 May Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice -- Meetings of the Committee of the Whole and Working Groups, Vienna

27-28 May WHO Executive Board (ninety-eighth session), Geneva

27 May-21 June International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) -- Council (148th session), Montreal

28-30 May Security Council -- Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolution 687 (1991), Geneva

28 May-14 June United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (twenty-ninth session), New York

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