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ORG/1255

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN NOVEMBER

5 November 1997


Press Release
ORG/1255


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN NOVEMBER

19971105 The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held beginning in November, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

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

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

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

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

Meetings beginning in November:

November/December Meeting between the seceretariats of the (1 week) United Nations and the Organization of African Unity, Addis Ababa

3-20 November International Narcotics Control Board (sixty-third session), Vienna

4-5 November United Nations Pledging Conference for Development Activities, New York

4-6 November Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Council (113th session), Rome

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6 November Working Group on the Financing of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), New York

6-20 November International Labour Organisation (ILO) Governing Body and its committees, (270th session), Geneva

7 November Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, New York

7-18 November Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Conference (twenty-ninth session), Rome

10-21 November Committee against Torture (nineteenth session), Geneva

10 November-5 December International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council (152nd session), Montreal

12 November United Nations Staff Pension Committee, New York

12-21 November Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (fifty-third session), Geneva

14 November International Maritime Organization (IMO) Council (fourteenth extraordinary session), London

15 & 17 November United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Executive Board (153rd) session, Paris

17-19 November United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) -- Industrial Development Board (resumed eighteenth session), Vienna

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17-21 November United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities (second session), Geneva

17-21 November Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Migrants and Human Rights, Geneva

17 November-5 December Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (seventeenth session), Geneva 19 November Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Council, (114th session), Rome

21 November International Maritime Organization (IMO) Assembly (twentieth session), London

24-25 November Investments Committee, New York

24-26 November United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Meeting of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, Geneva

24-27 November International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- Technical Assistance and Cooperation Committee, Vienna

26 November Sixth meeting of States Parties to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Geneva

26 November-5 December Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Geneva

28 November International Maritime Organization (IMO) Council (seventy-ninth session), London

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