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ORG/1294

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN DECEMBER

30 November 1999


Press Release
ORG/1294


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN DECEMBER

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

Meetings Continued from Previous Month:

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

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

November/December United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) –- Regional preparatory meetings for the tenth session of UNCTAD, venue to be determined

15 November-3 December Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (twenty-first session), Geneva

15 November-10 December International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) –- Council (158th session), Montreal

22 November-3 December 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 (seventeenth session), Geneva

24 November-3 December Commission on Human Rights -– Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (twenty-sixth session), Geneva

24 November-3 December Commission on Human Rights –- Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (fifty-ninth session), Geneva

29 November-3 December United Nations University -– Council (forty-sixth session), Tokyo

29 November-3 December United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) -– General Conference (eighth session), Vienna

29 November-17 December Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court (third session), New York

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November 1999

30 November-1 December Commission on Narcotic Drugs (resumed forty-second session), Vienna

30 November-3 December Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague

30 November-7 December Panel of External Auditors of the United Nations, the Specialized Agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency, Accra

Meetings beginning in December:

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

6-8 December International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – Technical Assistance and Cooperation Committee, Vienna

6-10 December Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights –- Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva

6-10 December Commission on Human Rights -– Open-ended Working Group on enhancing the effectiveness of the mechanisms of the Commission, Geneva

6-10 December Fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the International Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal (Basel Convention), Basel

6-17 December Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods -– Subcommittee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (seventeenth session), Geneva

6-17 December United Nations Conference on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) -– Working Group on Insolvency Law (twenty- third session), Vienna

8 December United Nations Board of Auditors (special session), Accra

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

8-9 December International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) – Executive Board, Rome

9-10 December IAEA -– Board of Governors, Vienna

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November 1999

13-16 December Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights (twelfth session), Geneva

15-17 December First 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

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