TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN NOVEMBER 2000

Press Release
ORG/1319

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN NOVEMBER 2000

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

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

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

23 October-22 November United Nations Administrative Tribunal, 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

Meetings beginning in November:

November Board of Trustees of the Voluntary Fund for (4 days) Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights (fourteenth session), Geneva

November International Meteorological Organization (IMO) -- Assembly (twenty-second session), London

November International Meteorological Organization (IMO) -- Council (eighty-fifth session), London

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November Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for (1 meeting) the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), New York

November Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for (1 meeting) the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), New York

November/December Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group (2 weeks) on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (sixty-second session), Geneva

November/December United Nations Development Programme (3 days) (UNDP) -- Inter-Agency Consultative Meeting, New York

1-2 November United Nations Pledging Conference for (1 day) Development Activities, New York

1-17 November International Narcotics Control Board (sixty-ninth session), Vienna

2-17 November International Labour Organization (ILO) -- Governing Body and its committees (279th session), Geneva

8-10 November United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Expert Meeting on Home Country Measures, Geneva

13-24 November Committee against Torture (twenty-fifth session), Geneva

13-24 November or Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the 8 December Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (seventeenth session), Geneva

13-24 November United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (sixth session), and meetings of subsidiary bodies, The Hague

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13 November-1 December Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (twenty-third session), Geneva

14-17 November Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Meeting of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, Asia and the Pacific, Yangon

14 November-8 December International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council, (161st session), Montreal

14-16 November United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) -- Industrial Development Board (twenty-third session), Vienna

20-21 November Investments Committee, New York

20-24 November Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (thirteenth session), Vienna

20-25 November Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Council, (119th session), Rome

20 November-1 December United Nations Conference on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) -- Working Group on Arbitration (thirty-third session), Vienna

20 November-8 December 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

22 November-1 December Commission on Human Rights -- Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (twenty-ninth session), Geneva

27-29 November United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Expert Meeting on Relationships between small and medium-sized enterprises and transnational corporations, Geneva

27 November-8 December Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court (sixth session), New York

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28 November-5 December Panel of External Auditors of the United Nations, the Specialized Agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), venue to be determined

29 November Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Special Meeting in Observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, New York

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