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ORG/1244

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN AUGUST

31 July 1997


Press Release
ORG/1244


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN AUGUST

19970731 The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held beginning in August, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

July/August Special Committee on the Situation with (1-2 meetings per week) regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, New York

14 July-1 August Human Rights Committee (sixtieth session), Geneva

14 July-1 August 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

21 July-1 August Commission on Human Rights -- Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities -- Working Group on Communications, Geneva

28 July-1 August Commission on Human Rights -- Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities -- Working Group on Indigenous Populations, Geneva

28 July-7 August United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- Ad Hoc Group on the Berlin Mandate (seventh session), Bonn

28 July-7 August United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (sixth session), Bonn

28 July-7 August United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- Subsidiary Body for Implementation (fifth session), Bonn

28 July-7 August United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- Ad Hoc Group on Article 13 (fifth session), Bonn

28 July-10 September Conference on Disarmament (third part), Geneva

Meetings beginning in August:

August Special Committee to Investigate Israeli (1 week) Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, Geneva

4-15 August Group of governmental experts to prepare a report on the continuing operation of the Register of Conventional Arms and its further development (third session), New York

4-15 August Preparatory Committee on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court (fourth session), New York

4-22 August Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (fifty-first session), Geneva

4-29 August Commission on Human Rights -- Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities (forty-ninth session), Geneva

18-22 August Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (fifty-second session), Geneva

18-22 August Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for the Elaboration of an International Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious

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Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa, (resumed tenth session), Geneva

18-29 August International Seabed Authority -- Assembly (third session, second part), Kingston

25-26 and 28 August Committee on Conferences (substantive session), New York

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