ORG/1229

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN JANUARY 1997

31 December 1996


Press Release
ORG/1229


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN JANUARY 1997

19961231 The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held beginning in January 1997, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings beginning in January:

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

January Committee for Development Planning -- (3 days) Working Group III, New York

3 January, once every Military Staff Committee, New York fortnight thereafter

6-10 January Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women -- Pre- sessional Working Group, New York

6-17 January 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 (tenth session), New York

6-24 January Committee on the Rights of the Child (fourteenth session), Geneva

13-17 January Executive Board of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (first regular session), New York

13-31 January Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (sixteenth session), New York

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14-17 January High-level Advisory Board on Sustainable Development (seventh session), Monaco

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

20-24 January United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) -- Executive Board (first regular session), New York

20-24 January United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development (first session), Geneva

20-31 January United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) -- Working Group on Insolvency Law (twenty-first session), New York

20-31 January Panel of Governmental Experts to Prepare a Report on Small Arms (second session), New York

20-31 January Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts, Geneva

20 January-27 March Conference on Disarmament (first part), Geneva

21-23 January Executive Board of the World Food Programme (WFP) (first regular session), Rome

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

27-31 January Committee on the Rights of the Child -- Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva

27 January-7 February United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) -- Governing Council (nineteenth session), Nairobi.

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