TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN FEBRUARY
Press Release
ORG/1231
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN FEBRUARY
19970131 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 month:
20 January-27 March Conference on Disarmament (first part), Geneva
27 January-7 February United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) -- Governing Council (nineteenth session), Nairobi
27 January-7 February Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization, New York
Meetings beginning in February:
February/June Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, New York
3-4 February Consultations of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People with representatives of NGO coordinating committees on the question of Palestine, New York
3-7 February Fourteenth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok
3-14 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
4-7 February Economic and Social Council, organizational session, New York
4 February-27 March Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York
11-13 February Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, Geneva
11-14 February Statistical Commission (twenty-ninth session), New York
11-21 February Commission on Sustainable Development -- Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (fourth session), New York
11-21 February Preparatory Committee on the establishment of an International Criminal Court (third session), New York
12 February Committee for the United Nations Population Award, New York
12-13 February Consultative Committee on the United Nations Development Fund for Women (thirty-seventh session), New York
17-21 February Commission on Narcotic Drugs -- Subcommission on Illicit Drug Traffic and Related Matters in the Near and Middle East, Baku
17-21 February International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) -- Board of Trustees (seventeenth session), Santo Domingo
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17-28 February Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space -- Scientific and Technical Subcommittee (thirty-fourth session), Vienna
18 February Sixth meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, New York
18-28 February United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) -- Working Group on Electronic Commerce (thirty-first session), New York
19-21 February United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities (resumed first session), Geneva
20-21 February International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) -- Governing Council, Rome
20-23 February Scientific and Technical Committee on the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (eighth session), Paris
24 February Investments Committee, New York
24-25 February Committee for Development Planning -- Working Group I, New York
24-28 February Commission on Population and Development (thirtieth session), New York
24-28 February Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Geneva
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24 February-4 March International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) -- Council (one hundred and fiftieth session), Montreal
24 February-7 March Commission on Sustainable Development -- Inter-sessional ad hoc open-ended working group, New York
24 February-7 March Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate an International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, New York
25 February-6 March Commission for Social Development (thirty- fifth session), New York
25 February-7 March United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (fifth session), Bonn
25 February-7 March United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- Subsidiary Body for Implementation (fourth session), Bonn
25 February-7 March United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- Ad Hoc Group on Article 13 (fourth session), Bonn
25 February-7 March United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- Ad Hoc Group on the Berlin Mandate (sixth session), Bonn
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