ORG/1249

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN OCTOBER

1 October 1997


Press Release
ORG/1249


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN OCTOBER

19971001 The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held beginning in October, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

September/October Universal Postal Union -- Council of Administration, Berne

2 September-December Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

15 September-3 October 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

16 September-December General Assembly (fifty-second session), New York

22 September-1 October World Intellectual Property Organization -- Governing bodies, Geneva

22 September-3 October General Assembly (fifty-second session) -- Sixth Committee Working on General Assembly resolution 51/210, New York

22 September-10 October Committee on the Rights of the Child (sixteenth session), Geneva

29 September-3 October United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues (second session), Geneva

29 September-3 October International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- General Conference, Vienna

29 September-3 October Commission on Narcotic Drugs -- Meetings of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, Latin America and Caribbean Region, Buenos Aires

29 September-10 October Conference of the Parties to the International Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (first session), Rome

29 September-17 October International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) -- Committee (152nd session), Montreal

Meetings beginning in October:

October Advisory Committee on the United Nations (2 days) Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law (thirty- second session), New York

October/November United Nations Staff Pension Committee, (1 meeting) New York

1-3 October Commission on Sustainable Development -- Ad Hoc Open-ended Intergovernmental Forum on Forests (first organizational session), New York

3-17 October United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) -- Executive Board (152nd session), Paris

6 October IAEA -- Board of Governors, Vienna

7 October Seventeenth Meeting of States Parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, New York

13-17 October Human Rights Committee -- Working Group on Communications, Geneva

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13-17 October Committee on the Rights of the Child -- Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva

13-17 October United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) -- Executive Committee (forty-eighth session), Geneva

13-24 October UNCTAD -- Trade and Development Board (forty-fourth session), Geneva

13-24 October Commission on Human Rights -- Open-ended Working Group on a Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Geneva

14 October United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) -- Advisory Commission, Amman

20-31 October United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) -- Working Group on International Contract Practices (twenty- seventh session), Vienna

20-31 October United Nations Convention Framework on Climate Change -- Ad Hoc Group on the Berlin Mandate (eighth session), Bonn

20-31 October United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (seventh session), Bonn

20-31 October United Nations Framework on Climate Change Convention -- Subsidiary Body for Implementation (sixth session), Bonn

20 October-7 November Human Rights Committee (sixty-first session), Geneva

21 October-12 November UNESCO, General Conference (twenty-ninth session), Paris

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27 October-7 November Commission on Human Rights -- Open-ended Working Group on a Draft United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Geneva

27 October-26 November United Nations Administrative Tribunal, New York

28-30 October Executive Board of the World Food Programme (third regular session), Rome

29-31 October Committee for Development Planning -- Working Group I, New York

29-31 October UNCTAD -- Meeting of Experts on Positive Measures to Promote Sustainable Development, Particularly in Meeting the Objectives of MEAs, Geneva

31 October-1 November Administrative Committee on Coordination (second regular session), New York

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