TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MAY 2000

Press Release
ORG/1302

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MAY 2000

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

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

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

Meetings beginning in May:

May Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Others of the Occupied Territories, Geneva

May World Health Organization (WHO) – Executive Board (106th session), Geneva

May Regional Seminar on the International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism (to be determined)

May/June United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization – Executive Board (158th session), Paris

1-5 May Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (seventh session), New York

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1-5 May Commission on Human Rights acting as the preparatory committee for the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (first session), Geneva

1-12 May Committee on Information (twenty-second session), New York

1-12 May United Postal Union (UPU) – Postal Operations Council, Berne

1-19 May Committee against Torture (twenty-fourth session), Geneva

1 May-9 June International Law Commission (fifty second session), Geneva

2 May Committee for Programme and Coordination (organizational session), New York

2-5 May Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (eleventh session), Vienna

2-11 May United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (forty-ninth session), Vienna

2-26 May Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

3-4 May Economic and Social Council (resumed organizational session), New York

3-4 May International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) – Executive Board, Rome

3-5 May Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) (fifty- fifth session), Geneva

5 May Commission on Sustainable Development (organizational session), New York

8-9 May Investments Committee, New York

8-12 May Fifteenth Meeting of Experts on the United Nations Programme in Public Administration and Finance New York

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8-12 May International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors – Programme and Budget Committee, Vienna

8-12 May Commission on Human Settlements acting as the preparatory committee for the special session of the General Assembly for an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the Habitat Agenda, (first substantive session), Nairobi

8 May-2 June General Assembly – Fifth Committee (resumed fifty-fourth session), New York

15-19 May Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, New York

15-19 May Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva

15-19 May Commission on Human Rights – Working Group on Arbitratry Detention (twenty-seventh session), Geneva

15-19 May Executive Board of the World Food Programme (if required) (WFP) (second regular session), Rome

15-19 May Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (fifth session), The Hague

15-20 May World Health Organization (WHO) – World Health Assembly fifty-third session), Geneva

15-26 May Preparatory Committee for the high-level international intergovernmental event on financing for development (first substantive session), New York

15-26 May International Narcotics Control Board (sixty-eighth session), Vienna

15-26 May Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization – Working Group B, Vienna

15-26 May Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture (nineteenth session), Geneva

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15-26 May Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (fifth meeting), Nairobi

15 May-2 June Committee on the Rights of the Child (twenty-fourth session), Geneva

16-26 May World Meteorological Organization (WMO) – Executive Council (fifty-second session), Geneva

22-24 May General Assembly – Fourth Committee (resumed fifty-fourth session), New York

22-26 May United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) – Executive Board (annual session), New York

22-26 May Meeting of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, New York

22-26 May Commission on Human Rights – Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights – Working Group on Minorities, Geneva

22-26 May Executive Board of the World Food Programme (annual session), Rome

22 May-2 June Group of Governmental Experts on the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms, New York

22 May-7 July Conference on Disarmament (second part), Geneva

23-25 May United Nations International Meeting in support of the Middle East Peace Process on the Question of Palestine, Athens

23 May-16 June International Civil Aviation Organization – Council (160th session), Montreal

24-26 May United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) – Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues: Expert Meeting, Geneva

29-31 May Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, Paris

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30-31 May United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) – Industrial Development Board (twenty-second session), Vienna

30 May-2 June Preparatory Committee for the special session of the General Assembly to review the achievement of the goals of the world Summit for Children (first substantive session), New York

30 May-2 June First Open-ended Consultative Process on Ocean Affairs, New York

30 May-15 June International Labour Organisation (ILO) – General Conference (eighty-eighth session) Geneva

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