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ORG/1275

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN DECEMBER

30 November 1998


Press Release
ORG/1275


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN DECEMBER

19981130 The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held beginning in December, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

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

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

23 November-18 December International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) -- Council (155th session), Montreal

30 November-11 December Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (second session), and Meetings of Subsidiary Bodies, Dakar

Meetings beginning in December:

December Disarmament Commission (organizational session), (2 days) New York

December Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly (1 meeting) for the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), New York

December Advisory Committee on the United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law (thirty-third session), New York

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December United Nations Conference on Trade and (1 day) Development (UNCTAD) -- Trade and Development Board (nineteenth executive session), Geneva

1 December International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- Board of Governors, Vienna

1-8 December Panel of External Auditors of the United Nations, the Specialized Agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), New York

2-3 December International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) -- Executive Board, Rome

2-11 December Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (fifty- sixth session, Geneva

7-9 December African Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Kampala

7-11 December United Nations University -- Council (forty- fifth session), Tokyo

7-11 December Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva

7-16 December Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (twentieth session), Geneva

9 December United Nations Board of Auditors, (special session), New York

14-15 December United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Working Party on the Medium-term Plan and the Programme Budget (thirty-second session, second part), Geneva

14-18 December Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (resumed 1998 session), New York

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