TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN JANUARY 2001

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

Meetings beginning in January:

January                             Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the

(3 weeks)                           Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (twenty-third session), Geneva

January                             Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, New

(4 days)                            York

January                             United Nations Staff Pension Committee, New

(1 meeting)                         York

January/February                    Commission on Human Rights, open-ended

(1 week)                            working group on the right to development, Geneva

5 January, once                     Military Staff Committee, New York

every fortnight thereafter

8-19 January                        Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (second session), New York

8-19 January                        Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (resumed 2000 session), New York

8-26 January                        Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (fifty-eighth session), Geneva

8-26 January                        Committee on the Rights of the Child (twenty-sixth session), Geneva

9 January                           Economic and Social Council, election of Bureau, New York

15-19 January                       United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Working Party on the Medium-term Plan and the Programme Budget (thirty-seventh session), Geneva

15-26 January                       Post-Phase V Working Group on Reimbursement of Contingent-Owned Equipment, New York

15 January-2 February               Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (twenty-fourth session), New York

15 January-23 March                 Conference on Disarmament (first part), Geneva

22-25 January                       Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery (seventh session), Geneva

22-26 January                       United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Executive Board (first regular session), New York

22-26 January                       Seventh United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for the Americas, New York

22-26 January                       United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development, Geneva

29 January                          Joint Meeting of the Executive Boards of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP), New York

29 January-2 February               Committee on the Rights of the Child, Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva

29 January-2 February               Preparatory Committee for the Special Session of the General Assembly in 2001 for Follow-up to the World Summit for Children (second substantive session), New York

29 January-9 February               Executive Board of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (first regular session), New York

29 January-23 February              Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and its Working Group, substantive session, New York

30 January-2 February               Economic and Social Council (organizational session), New York  

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