TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MAY
Press Release
ORG/1283
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MAY
19990430 The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in May, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:Meetings continued from previous month:
April/May 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
19 April-7 May International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) -- Committee (157th session), Montreal
26 April-14 May Committee against Torture (twenty-second session), Geneva
26 April-14 May Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (twentieth session), Geneva
27 April-6 May Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (eighth session), Vienna
27 April-6 May Commission on Crime Prevention and (12 meetings) Criminal Justice -- parallel meetings for informal consultations and working groups, Vienna
30 April-4 May Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) -- Technical Preparatory Committee of the Whole (nineteenth session), Addis Ababa
Meetings beginning in May
May Economic and Social Commission for Western (3 days) Asia (ESCWA)-- Technical Committee, Beirut
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May Regional Seminar on the International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, (to be determined)
3-5 May International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- Board of Governors: Administrative and Budgetary Committee, Vienna
3-7 May First Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, Maputo
3-7 May Ad Hoc Group of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters, New York
3-7 May International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) -- Board of Trustees (nineteenth session), New York
3-14 May Committee on Information (twenty-first session), New York
3-14 May Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (fifth session), New York
3-14 May Commission on Sustainable Development -- Ad Hoc Open-ended Intergovernmental Forum on Forests (third session), Geneva
3 May-23 July International Law Commission (fifty- first session), Geneva
4-6 May Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) (fifty-fourth session), Geneva
4 May-16 July Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), New York
4-26 May World Meteorological Organization (WMO) -- Thirteenth World Meteorological Congress, Geneva
5-14 May Commission on Human Settlements (seventeenth session), Nairobi
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6-7 May Economic and Social Council (resumed organizational session), New York
6-8 May ECA -- Twenty-fourth meeting of the Conference of Ministers (thirty-third session) of the Commission, Addis Ababa
10-11 May Investments Committee, New York
10-11 May Economic and Social Council -- Informal meeting on basic indicators for the integrated and coordinated implementation and follow-up of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields, New York
10-14 May Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (fifty-seventh session), New York
10-21 May International Narcotics Control Board (sixty-sixth session), Vienna
10-21 May Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group B, Vienna
10-21 May Preparatory Committee for the Review Conference of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in the year 2000, (third session), New York
10-28 May General Assembly, Fifth Committee (resumed fifty-third session, second part), New York
10 May-25 June Conference on Disarmament (second part), Geneva
11-14 May Executive Board of the World Food Programme (WFP) (second regular session), Rome
17-18 May Commission on Human Settlements, organizational session of the Commission acting as the preparatory committee for the General Assembly special session on the Habitat Agenda, Nairobi
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17-20 May Executive Board of the WFP (annual session), Rome
17-21 May Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- (Pre-sessional Working Group), Geneva
17-21 May Commission on Science and Technology for Development (fourth session), Geneva
17-21 May Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (twenty- fourth session), Geneva
17-26 May World Health Organization (WHO) -- World Health Assembly (fifty-second session), Geneva
17-28 May Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture (eighteenth session), Geneva
17-28 May Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, Geneva
17-28 May Preparatory Committee for the special session of the General Assembly on the implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and further initiatives (first substantive session), New York
17 May-4 June Committee on the Rights of the Child (twenty-first session), Geneva
17 May-4 June United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (thirty-second session), Vienna
19-28 May Meeting of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, New York
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24-28 May Open-ended Working Group of the Preparatory Committee for the special session of the General Assembly on the implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and further initiatives (parallel meetings), New York
24-28 May Fourth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal
25-26 May Preparatory Committee of the Annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Protocol II, as amended, to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, Geneva
25-31 May Commission on Human Rights -- Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities -- Working Group on Minorities, Geneva
25 May-11 June United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) -- Executive Board (156th) session, Paris
27-28 May WHO -- Executive Board (104th session), Geneva
27-28 May ESCWA -- twentieth session, Beirut
27-29 May WMO -- Executive Council (fifty-first session), Geneva
31 May-11 June United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- Meetings of subsidiary bodies of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Bonn
31 May-25 June ICAO -- Council (157th session), Montreal
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