TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN OCTOBER 2000

Press Release
ORG/1318

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN OCTOBER 2000

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

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

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

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

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

Meetings beginning in October:

October Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Meeting of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, Asia and the Pacific, Yangon

2-4 October United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Expert Meeting on Human Resources Development and Training in Trade-supporting Services, Geneva

2-6 October United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) -- Executive Committee (fifty-first session), Geneva

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2-27 October Open-ended Intergovernmental Ad Hoc Committee for the Purposes of Elaborating a Comprehensive International Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (eleventh meeting), Vienna

3-6 October Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague

3-6 October Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Meeting of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, Latin America and the Caribbean, Ottawa

9-13 October Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization -- Working Group A, Vienna

9-13 October Human Rights Committee -- Working Group on Communications, Geneva

9-13 October Committee on the Rights of the Child -– Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva

9-20 October United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Trade and Development Board (forty-seventh session), Geneva

9-25 October United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) -- Executive Board (160th session), Paris

10-27 October International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) -- Committee (161st session), Montreal

16 October Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) -- World Food Day, Rome

16-27 October United Postal Union (UPU) -- Postal Operations Council, Berne

16 October-3 November Human Rights Committee (seventieth session), Geneva

18 October Economic and Social Council, resumed substantive session, New York

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23-25 October United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Expert Meeting on National Experiences with Regulations and Liberalization, Geneva

23-27 October Executive Board of the World Food Programme (WFP) (third regular session), Rome

23 October-22 November United Nations Administrative Tribunal, New York

27-28 October Administrative Committee on Coordination, second regular session, New York

30 October-1 November United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Expert Meeting on Systems and National Experiences for the Protection of Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Practices, Geneva

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