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ORG/1311

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN AUGUST 2000

2 August 2000


Press Release
ORG/1311


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN AUGUST 2000

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

3 July-4 August United Nations Administrative Tribunal, Geneva

5 July-1 August Economic and Social Council (substantive session), New York

10 July-4 August 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 (twentieth session), Geneva

17 July-4 August International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) (fifty-second session), New York

24 July-4 August Group of Governmental Experts on the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms, New York

31 July-25 August Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (fifty-seventh session), Geneva

31 July-25 August Commission on Human Rights -– Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (fifty-second session), Geneva

Meetings beginning in August:

August Committee on Conferences (substantive session), New York

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August Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, Geneva

7-22 August Conference on Disarmament (third part), Geneva 14 August-1 September Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (extraordinary session), Geneva

14-25 August Committee on Energy and Natural Resources for Development (second session), New York

14-25 August Committee for Programme and Coordination (fortieth session, second part), New York

21-25 August Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (sixty- first session), Geneva

21 August-1 September Human Rights Committee -- Working Group on Communications, Geneva

22-25 August Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (twelfth session), Vienna

28 August-1 September Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (eighth session), New York

28 August-8 September Preparatory Committee for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization -- Working Group B, Vienna

31 August or September Eleventh Meeting of States Parties to the (1 day) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, New York

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