ORG/1272

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN OCTOBER

30 September 1998


Press Release
ORG/1272


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN OCTOBER

19980930 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 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) -- Governing bodies, Geneva

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

9 September-11 December General Assembly (fifty-third session), New York

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

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-2 October United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities (third session), Geneva

Meetings beginning in October:

October/November United Nations Administrative Tribunal, (4 weeks) New York

5-9 October United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) -- Executive Committee (forty-ninth session), Geneva

5-9 October Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (fifty-fifth session), Geneva

5-16 October United Nations Conference on International Trade Law -- Working Group on International Contract Practices (twenty- ninth session), Vienna

6-8 October International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank -- Joint annual meeting of the Boards of Governors, Washington, D.C.

12-16 October Human Rights Committee -- Working Group on Communications, Geneva

12-16 October Committee on the Rights of the Child -- Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva

12-21 October United Postal Union -- Council of Administration, Berne

12-23 October UNCTAD -- Trade and Development Board (forty-fifth session), High-level Segment (Mid-term Review), Geneva

13 October Special Committee to Select the Winners of the United Nations Human Rights Prize, New York

19 October-5 November United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) -- Executive Board, (155th session), Paris

19 October-6 November ICAO -- Committee (155th session), Montreal

19 October-6 November Human Rights Committee (sixty-fourth session), Geneva

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20-23 October Executive Board of the World Food Programme (WFP) (third regular session), Rome

26-30 October Commission on Narcotic Drugs --- Meeting of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, Asia and the Pacific Region, Kuala Lumpur

30-31 October Administrative Committee on Coordination (second regular session), New York

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