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ORG/1233

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN APRIL

31 March 1997


Press Release
ORG/1233


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN APRIL

19970331 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:

February/June Special Committee on the Situation with (as required) regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, New York

March/April United Nations Staff Pension Committee, (1 meeting) New York

10 March-18 April Commission on Human Rights (fifty-third session), Geneva

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

Meetings beginning in April:

1-18 April Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space -- Legal Subcommittee (thirty-sixth session), Vienna

7-18 April Preparatory Committee for the Review Conference of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in the Year 2000, New York

7-25 April Commission on Sustainable Development (fifth session), New York

10-11 April Administrative Committee on Coordination (first regular session), Geneva

10 April-2 May Special Committee on Peace-keeping Operations and its Working Group (substantive session), New York

14-16 April Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) (fifty-second session), Geneva

14-16 April United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Working Party on the Medium-term Plan and the Programme Budget (twenty-ninth session, second part), Geneva

14-16, 18 April High-level open-ended working group on the (6 meetings) financial situation of the United Nations, New York

21-23 April United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) -- Industrial Development Board (seventh special session), Vienna

21-25 April Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) (fifty-second session), Geneva

21-25 April Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, Geneva

21-25 April High-level open-ended working group on the (8 meetings) financial situation of the United Nations, New York

21 April-2 May International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) (forty-fifth session), Geneva

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21 April-2 May United Postal Union (UPU) -- Postal Operations Council, Berne

21 April-9 May International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Committee (one hundred fifty-first session), Montreal

21 April-13 May Disarmament Commission, New York

23-30 April Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) (fifty-third session), Bangkok

28 April-2 May Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) -- Technical Preparatory Committee of the Whole (eighteenth session), Addis Ababa

28 April-2 May Open-ended working group on the question (8 meetings) of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Security Council, New York

28 April-7 May Commission on Human Settlements (sixteenth session), Nairobi

28 April-9 May Committee against Torture (eighteenth session), Geneva

28 April-9 May Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (sixth session), Vienna

28 April-16 May Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (sixteenth session), Geneva

29 April-8 May Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (sixth session) (parallel meetings for informal consultations and open-ended working groups), Vienna

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