TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN DECEMBER 2000
Press Release
ORG/1320
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN DECEMBER 2000
20001130The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in December, 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 (ACABQ), New York
5 September-December General Assembly, fifty-fifth session (the Millennium Assembly of the United Nations), New York
13 November-1 December Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (twenty-third session), Geneva
14 November-8 December International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council, (161st session), Montreal
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 November-8 December Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court (sixth session), New York
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
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Meetings beginning in December:
December Disarmament Commission (organizational session), New York
December International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) -- Executive Board, Rome
December Board of Trustees of the Voluntary Fund for (4 days) Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights (fourteenth session), Geneva
4-6 December United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) -- Expert Meeting on the Impact of Anti-dumping and Countervailing Actions, Geneva
4-6 December IAEA Board of Governors -- Technical Assistance and Cooperation Committee, Vienna
4-8 December Committee on Economic, Social and cultural Rights -- Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva
4-8 December Security Council -- Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolution 687 (1991), thirty-eighth session Geneva
4-8 December United Nations University -- Council (forty- seventh session), Tokyo
4-13 December Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (twenty-first session), Geneva
5-8 December Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague
6 December United Nations Board of Auditors (special session) to be determined
7- 8 December IAEA -- Board of Governors, Vienna
11-13 December Annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II of the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, Geneva
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11-22 December UNCITRAL -- Working Group on International Contract Practices (twenty-third session), Vienna
11-22 December Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (fourth session), and meetings of subsidiary bodies, Bonn
12-15 December High-level Political Signing Conference for the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, Palermo
14 December Preparatory Committee for the Second Review Conference of the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, Geneva
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