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ORG/1280

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MARCH

26 February 1999


Press Release
ORG/1280


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MARCH

19990226 The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in March, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

19 January-26 March Conference on Disarmament (first part), Geneva

2 February-31 March Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

22 February-5 March Commission on Sustainable Development -- Inter-sessional ad hoc open-ended working groups, New York

22 February-19 March International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) -- Council (156th session), Montreal

February/March 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

Meetings beginning in March:

March Board of Trustees of the United Nations (3 days) Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery (fifth session), Geneva

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

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

1-5 March Statistical Commission (thirtieth session), New York

1-5 March Commission on Human Rights -- Open-ended Working Group established to elaborate policy guidelines on the effects of structural adjustment programmes on the full enjoyment of human rights, Geneva

1-5 March Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space -- Legal Subcommittee (thirty-eighth session), Vienna

1-5 March Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group A, Vienna

1-12 March United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- United Nations/International Maritime Organization (IMO) Diplomatic Conference on a convention on arrest of ships, Geneva

1-12 March United Nations Conference on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) -- Working Group on International Contract Practices (thirtieth session), New York

1-12 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

1-19 March Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (fifty-fourth session), Geneva

1-19 March Commission on the Status of Women (forty- third session), New York

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4-26 March International Labour Organization (ILO) -- Governing Body and its Committees (274th session), Geneva

8-12 March Open-ended Intergovernmental Ad Hoc Committee for the Purpose of Elaborating a Draft International Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (second meeting), Vienna

8-26 March General Assembly, Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) (resumed fifty-third session, first part), New York

15-18 March Security Council -- Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolution 687 (1991), (thirty-first session), Geneva

15-19 March Human Rights Committee -- Working Group on Communications, New York

15-26 March Ad Hoc Committee established by General Assembly resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996, New York

16-25 March Commission on Narcotic Drugs (forty-second session), Vienna

16-25 March Committee of the Whole of the Commission (4 days) on Narcotic Drugs, Vienna

17-22 March Committee of the Whole of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Vienna

22-24 March UNCTAD -- Expert Meeting on International Investments Agreement, Geneva

22-25 March International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- Board of Governors, Vienna

22-26 March UNCTAD -- Meeting of Experts within the (3 days) framework of the Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues, Geneva

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22-31 March Commission on Population and Development (thirty-second session), and meeting of the Commission acting as the preparatory committee for the General Assembly special session for the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, New York

22 March-9 April Human Rights Committee (sixty-fifth session), New York

22 March-30 April Commission on Human Rights (fifty-fifth session), Geneva

23 March-23 April Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and its Working Group, substantive session, New York

29 March-9 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 (fourteenth session), Geneva

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