TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MARCH
Press Release
ORG/1232
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MARCH
19970228 The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held beginning in March, 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
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
4 February-27 March Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), New York
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 on measures to eliminate international terrorism, 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
Meetings beginning in March:
March Commission on Narcotic Drugs as the (2-3 days) Preparatory Committee for the Special Session of the General Assembly on Drugs, Vienna
March United Nations Institute for Training and (2-3 days) Research (UNITAR) -- Board of Trustees (thirty-fifth session, first part), Geneva
March/April United Nations Staff Pension Committee, (1 meeting) New York
3-7 March Group of governmental experts to prepare a report on the continuing operation of the Register of Conventional Arms and its further development (first session), New York
3-7 March High-level open-ended working group of the (8 meetings) General Assembly on the financial situation of the United Nations, New York
3-7 March Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Situations, Geneva
3-7 March Commission on Human Rights -- Open-ended working group to elaborate policy guidelines on the effects of structural adjustment programmes on the full enjoyment of human rights, Geneva
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3-21 March Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (fiftieth session), Geneva
3-21 March Ad Hoc Group of 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
10-14 March Executive Board of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (second regular session), New York
10-14 March Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, New York
10-14 March Open-ended working group of the General (8 meetings) Assembly on the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Security Council, New York
10 March-18 April Commission on Human Rights (fifty-third session), Geneva
10-21 March Commission on the Status of Women (forty- first session), New York
10-21 March Commission on the Status of Women -- In- session open-ended working group on the elaboration of a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, New York
10-27 March General Assembly (resumed fifty-first session) -- Fifth Committee, (Administrative and Budgetary), New York
17-21 March Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery (fourth session), Geneva
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17-21 March Open-ended working group of the General (8 meetings) Assembly on the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Security Council, New York
17-21 March Human Rights Committee -- Working Group on Communications, New York
17-21 March International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- Board of Governors, Vienna
17-27 March International Seabed Authority -- Assembly (third session, first part), Kingston
18-19 March United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) -- Executive Board (second regular session), New York
18-27 March Commission on Narcotic Drugs (fortieth session), Vienna
19-24 March Committee of the Whole of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Vienna
24-26 March Executive Board of the World Food Programme (WFP) (second regular session), Rome
24-27 March Informal open-ended working group of the (7 meetings) General Assembly on An Agenda for Peace and/or its subgroups, New York
24 March-4 April General Assembly (resumed fifty-first session) -- Sixth Committee (Legal), Working Group of the Whole on the Convention on the Law of the Non- Navigational Uses of International Watercourses, New York
24 March-11 April Human Rights Committee (fifty-ninth session), New York
31 March-4 April Ad Hoc open-ended working group of the (8 meetings) General Assembly on an agenda for development, New York
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