TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN OCTOBER

Press Release
ORG/1290

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN OCTOBER

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

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

7 September-22 December Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), New York

14 September-December General Assembly (fifty-fourth session), New York

20 September-8 October Committee on the Rights of the Child (twenty-second session), Geneva

27 September-1 October International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- General Conference, Vienna

27 September-1 October United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Working Party on the Medium-term Plan and the Programme Budget (thirty-fourth session), Geneva

27 September-1 October Commission on Human Rights – Open-ended Working Group on enhancing the effectiveness of the mechanisms of the Commission, Geneva

27 September-8 October Working Group on the Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Geneva

Meetings beginning in October:

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

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October/November Universal Postal Union (UPU) -- Postal Operations Council, Berne

4 October IAEA -- Board of Governors, Vienna

4-8 October Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear- Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group A, Vienna

4-8 October Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) -- Executive Committee (fiftieth session), Geneva

4-8 October UNCTAD -- Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues (fourth session), Geneva

11-15 October Human Rights Committee - - Working Group on Communications, Geneva

11-22 October United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) -- Working Group on International Contract Practices (thirty- first session), Vienna

11-22 October United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) -- Executive Board (157th session), Paris

12-29 October International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) -- Committee (158th session), Montreal

18-29 October UNCTAD -- Trade and Development Board (forty-sixth session), (preparatory process for UNCTAD X), Geneva

18-29 October Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group to elaborate a draft United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, Geneva

18 October-5 November Human Rights Committee (sixty- seventh session), Geneva

19-22 October Executive Board of the World Food Programme (third regular session), Rome

25 October-5 November United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (fifth session and meetings of subsidiary bodies), Bonn

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25 October-24 November United Nations Administrative Tribunal, New York

26 October-17 November UNESCO – General Conference (thirtieth session), Paris

29-30 October Administrative Committee on Coordination (second regular session), New York

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