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ORG/1264

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MARCH

27 February 1998


Press Release
ORG/1264


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MARCH

19980227 The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held beginning in March, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

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

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

3 February-27 March Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

17 February-6 March Ad Hoc Committee on General Assembly resolution 51/210, New York

23 February-4 March Commission on Human Rights -- Open-ended Working Group on a draft declaration on the right and responsibility of individuals, groups and organizations of society to promote and protect universally recognized human rights and freedoms, Geneva

23 February-20 March ICAO Council, (153rd session), Montreal

Meetings beginning in March:

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

March United Nations Institute for Training and (2-3 days) Research (UNITAR) -- Board of Trustees (thirty-sixth session, first part), Geneva

2-4 March United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Meeting of Experts within the framework of the Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development, Geneva

2-13 March Commission on the Status of Women (forty- second session), New York

2-13 March Commission on the Status of Women -- In- session open-ended working group on the elaboration of a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, New York

2-13 March United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) -- Working Group on International Contract Practices (twenty- eighth session), New York

2-20 March Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (fifty-second session), Geneva

9-13 March Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Situations, Geneva

9-27 March General Assembly, resumed fifty-second session -- Fifth Committee, (first resumed session), New York

10-19 March Committee on Natural Resources (fourth session), New York

11-13 March Commission on Narcotic Drugs (forty-first session), Vienna

12-13 March Preparatory Committee on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court -- consultations, New York

12-26 March International Labour Organization (ILO) -- Governing Body (271st session), Geneva

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16-18 March Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery (fourth session), Geneva

16-20 March Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Communications, New York

16-20 March Committee of the Whole of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Vienna

16-20 March Second Meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs acting as the preparatory body for the special session of the General Assembly on the question of narcotic drugs, Vienna

16-20 March International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- Board of Governors, Vienna

16 March-3 April Preparatory Committee on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court (sixth session), New York

16 March-24 April Commission on Human Rights (fifty-fourth session), Geneva

19-20 March General Assembly, resumed fifty-second session -- Second Committee (first resumed session), New York

23 March-3 April Committee on New and Renewable Sources of Energy and on Energy for Development (third session), New York

23 March-3 April Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space -- Legal Subcommittee (thirty- seventh session), Vienna

23 March-9 April Human Rights Committee (sixty-second session), New York

25-27 March Advisory Group of the United Nations Fund for the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People, Geneva

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30 March-3 April Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, Geneva

30 March-10 April 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 (tenth session), Geneva

30 March-24 April Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and its Working Group, (substantive session), New York

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