TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN SEPTEMBER 2000

Press Release
ORG/1313

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN SEPTEMBER 2000

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

14 August - 1 September Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (extraordinary session), Geneva

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

21 August - 1 September Commission on Human Rights -- Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights -- Working Group on Communications, Geneva 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 Eleventh Meeting of States Parties to the (1 day) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, New York

Meetings beginning in September:

September United Nations Relief and Works Agency for (1 day) Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) -- Advisory Commission, Amman

September - October United Nations Staff Pension Committee, New (1 meeting) York

September United Nations Institute for Training and (2-3 days) Research (UNITAR) -- Board of Trustees (thirty-eighth session, second part), Geneva

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4 - 5 September United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) -- Programme and Budget Committee (sixteenth session), Vienna

4 - 8 September Security Council -- Governing Council of the (4 days) United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolution 687 (1991), thirty-seventh session, Geneva

4 - 8 September Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- Pre-sessional Working Group, extraordinary session, Geneva

5 September - 22 December Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

5 September - December General Assembly, fifty-fifth session (the Millennium Assembly of the United Nations), New York

6 - 8 September The Millennium Summit of the United Nations, New York

11 - 12 September Investments Committee, New York

11 - 15 September Second Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti- personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, Geneva

11 - 15 September Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (twenty-eighth session), Geneva

11 - 15 September United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Working Party on the Medium-term Plan and the Programme Budget (thirty-sixth session, first part), Geneva

11 - 15 September International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- Board of Governors, Vienna

11 - 15 September United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, meetings of subsidiary bodies of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Lyon

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13 - 14 September International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) -- Executive Board, Rome

14 September Twentieth Meeting of States Parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, New York

18 - 20 September United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Expert Meeting on Electronic Commerce and Tourism, Geneva

18 - 21 September Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) -- Committee on World Food Security, Rome

18 - 22 September Commission on Human Rights -- Open-ended working group on the right to development, Geneva

18 - 22 September United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) -- Executive Board, second regular session, New York

18 - 22 September International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- General Conference, Vienna

18 - 29 September United Nations Conference on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) -- Working Group on Electronic Commerce (thirty-seventh session), Vienna

18 September - 6 October Committee on the Rights of the Child (twenty- fifth session), Geneva

25 September International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- Board of Governors, Vienna

25 - 29 September Fourth United Nations Conference on the Set of Multilaterally Agreed Equitable Principles and Rules for the Control of Restrictive Business Practices, Geneva

25 - 29 September Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (third regular session), New York

25 September - 3 October World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) -- Assemblies of Member States, Geneva

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25 September - 6 October 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 (twenty-first session), Geneva

26 - 28 September International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank, joint annual meetings of the Boards of Governors, Prague

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