TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN FEBRUARY 2000
Press Release
ORG/1297
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN FEBRUARY 2000
20000131The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in February 2000, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:
Meetings continued from previous month:
17 January-4 February Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (twenty-second session), New York
31 January-4 February Fifth meeting of the subsidiary body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal
31 January-4 February Committee on the Rights of the Child - Pre-sessional working group, Geneva
Meetings beginning in February
February Commission on Narcotic Drugs - Subcommission on Illicit Drug Traffic and Related Matters in the Near and Middle East, (a capital in the region)
February International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) - Governing Council, Rome
February Universal Postal Union (UPU) - Council of Administration, Berne
February UPU - Postal Operations Council, Berne
February/March Consultative Committee on the United Nations Development Fund for Women (fortieth session), New York
February/March Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, New York
1-4 February Economic and Social Council, organizational session, New York
1 February-31 March Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), New York
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January 2000
7-8 February Preparatory Committee for the special session of the General Assembly to review the achievement of the goals of the World Summit for Children (organizational session), New York
7-10 February Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery (sixth session), Geneva
7-11 February Commission on Human Rights - Open-ended working group on enhancing the effectiveness of the mechanism of the Commission, Geneva
7-11 February Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Pre-sessional Working Group, New York
7-11 February Executive Board of the World Food Programme (WFP) (first regular session), Rome
7-18 February Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space - Scientific and Technical Subcommittee (thirty-seventh session), Vienna
8-17 February Commission for Social Development (thirty-eighth session), New York
12-19 February United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Bangkok
14-18 February Ad Hoc Committee established by General Assembly resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996, New York
14-23 February Commission on Human Rights - Open-ended inter-sessional ad hoc working group on a permanent forum for indigenous people in the United Nations system, Geneva
14-25 February United Nations Conference on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) - Working Group on Electronic Commerce (thirty-sixth session), New York
14 February-10 March Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and its Working Group (substantive session), New York
15-18 February Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague
21-22 February Investments Committee, Paris
21-25 February Commission on Human Rights - Working Group on Situations, Geneva
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January 2000
21 February-3 March Commission on Sustainable Development - Inter-sessional ad hoc open- ended working groups, New York
21 February- 3 March Open-ended Intergovernmental Ad Hoc Committee for the Purpose of Elaborating a Comprehensive International Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (eighth meeting), Vienna
21 February-17 March International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) - Council (159th session), Montreal
22 February and 21 March Committee for the United Nations Population Award, New York
24 February-10 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
28 February-2 March Commission on the Status of Women (forty-fourth session, New York
28 February-3 March Preparatory Committee for the Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, (first session), New York
28 February-3 March Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization Working Group A, Vienna
29 February-3 March Statistical Commission (thirty- first session), New York
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