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ORG/1270

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN SEPTEMBER

1 September 1998


Press Release
ORG/1270


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN SEPTEMBER

19980901 The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held beginning in September, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

27 July-9 September Conference on Disarmament (third part), Geneva

24 August-4 September Commission on Sustainable Development -- Ad Hoc Open-ended Intergovernmental Forum on Forests (second session), Geneva

31 August-4 September Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (fourth session), New York

Meetings beginning in September:

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

September/October World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) -- Governing bodies, Geneva

September United Nations Relief and Works Agency for (1 day) Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) -- Advisory Commission, Amman

1 September-18 December Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

2-4 September United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Expert Meetings on Clustering and Networking for SME Development, Geneva

7-9 September United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) -- Board of Trustees (thirty-sixth session, second part), Geneva

8-11 September* United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) -- Executive Board (second regular session), New York

9-10 September International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) -- Executive Board, Rome

9-10 September United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) -- Programme and Budget Committee (fourteenth session), Vienna

9-11 September Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, Geneva

9 September-December General Assembly (fifty-third session), New York

10 September Eighteenth Meeting of States Parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, New York

10, 11 and 14 September* Committee on Conferences (substantive session), New York

14-15 September Investments Committee, New York

14-16 September Fifty-first Annual DPI/NGO Conference, New York

14-16 and 21-22 September Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) (third regular session), New York

__________ * Dates subject to approval by the General Assembly.

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14-17 September International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- Board of Governors, Vienna

14-18 September Commission on Narcotic Drugs -- Meeting of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, European Region, Vienna

14-18 September UNCTAD -- Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues (third session), Geneva

14-18 September Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Geneva

14-18 September Meeting of Chairpersons of Human Rights Treaty Bodies, Geneva

14 September-9 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 (twelfth session), Geneva

17-18 September High-level dialogue of the General Assembly on strengthening international economic cooperation for development through partnership, New York

21-23 September UNCTAD -- Working Party on the Medium-term Plan and the Programme Budget (thirty- second session, first part), Geneva

21-25 September IAEA -- General Conference, Vienna

21 September-9 October Committee on the Rights of the Child (nineteenth session), Geneva

22 September-2 October International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) -- Assembly, Montreal

28 September IAEA -- Board of Governors, Vienna

28 September-2 October UNCTAD -- Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities (third session), Geneva

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