TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN AUGUST

Press Release
ORG/1287*

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN AUGUST

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

26 July-13 August Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court (second session), New York

26 July-8 September Conference on Disarmament (third part), Geneva

August/September United Nations International NGO Meeting (3 days) on the Question of Palestine (venue to be determined)

Meetings beginning in August:

2-5 August Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, Geneva

2-27 August Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (fifty-fifth session), Geneva

2-27 August Commission on Human Rights -- Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (fifty-first session), Geneva

9-27 August Assembly of the International Seabed Authority (fifth session), Kingston

* Reissued to correct symbol number. - 2 - Press Release ORG/1287 6 August 1999

23-26 August United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Meeting of governmental experts from landlocked and transit developing countries and representatives of donor countries, and financial and development institutions, New York

23 August-15 September Universal Postal Union (UPU) -- Universal Postal Congress, Beijing

24-27 August Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (ninth session), Vienna

30 August-3 September Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (sixth session), New York

30 August-3 September Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (fifty-eighth session), Geneva

30 August-10 September Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group B, Vienna

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