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ORG/1259

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN JANUARY

31 December 1997


Press Release
ORG/1259


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN JANUARY

19971231 The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held beginning in January 1998, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings beginning in January:

January Commission on Narcotic Drugs -- Meeting of (1 week) Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, African region, Addis Ababa

January United Nations Staff Pension Committee, (1 meeting) New York

January/February Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, New (4 days) York

January/February Committee for the United Nations (2 days) Population Award, New York

January/February 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

2 January, once every Military Staff Committee, New York fortnight thereafter

5-23 January Committee on the Rights of the Child (seventeenth session), Geneva

5-23 January 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 (ninth session), Geneva

12-14 January Committee for Development Planning -- working group II, New York

12-16 January Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women -- pre- sessional working group, New York

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12-16 January Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (resumed 1997 session), New York

12 and 23 January United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (nineteenth session), New York

13-22 January Seventh United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names, New York

14 January States Parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (seventeenth meeting), New York

19-23 January Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (first regular session), New York

19-30 January Commission on Human Rights -- working group on a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts, Geneva

19-30 January United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) -- working group on electronic commerce (thirty-second session), Vienna

19 January-6 February Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (eighteenth session), New York

19 January-27 March Conference on Disarmament (first part), Geneva

22 January Economic and Social Council (election of bureau), New York

26-30 January United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) -- Executive Board (first regular session), New York

26-30 January Committee on the Rights of the Child -- pre-sessional working group, Geneva

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