TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN APRIL 2000

Press Release
ORG/1301

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN APRIL 2000

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

March/April United Nations Staff Pension Committee, New York

20 March-27 April Commission on Human Rights (fifty-sixth session), Geneva

27 March-7 April Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space –- Legal Subcommittee (thirty-ninth session), Vienna

Meetings beginning in April:

April Committee for Programme and Coordination, (1 day) (organizational session), New York

3-7 April Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)(second regular session), New York

3-7 April Committee for Development Policy (second session), New York

3-8 April Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) (twenty-eighth session), Mexico City

3-14 April Preparatory Committee for the special session of the General Assembly entitled: “World Summit for Social Development and beyond: achieving social development for all in a globalizing world” (second substantive session), New York

3-20 April International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) (fifty-first session), Vienna

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4-6 April International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) -– Board of Trustees (twentieth session), Santo Domingo

4-7 April Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague

6-7 April Administrative Committee on Coordination (first regular session), Rome (WFP/IFAD Headquarters)

10-12 April Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, Geneva

10-14 April Fifteenth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Pacific, Kuala Lumpur

10-17 April Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Vienna

10-20 April Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization, New York

13-14 April Advisory Group of the United Nations Trust Fund for the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People, Geneva

17-20 April Ad Hoc group of governmental experts on information and communication technology, New York

17 April-5 May International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) -– Committee (160th session), Montreal

18 April Special high-level meeting between the Economic and Social Council and the Bretton Woods institutions, New York

18-20 April Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (parallel meetings for informal consultations and working groups), Vienna

24-27 April Commission on Human Rights -– Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (sixtieth session), New York

24 April-5 May Commission on Sustainable Development (eighth session), New York

24 April-19 May 2000 Review Conference of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, New York

25 April-12 May Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (twenty-second session), Geneva

26-27 April United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) -- Board of Trustees (thirty-eighth session, first part), Geneva

26-27 April International Conference on Palestinian Refugees (venue to be determined)

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