TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MARCH 2001
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TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MARCH 2001
The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in March, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:
Meetings continued from previous month:
22 January-30 March Conference on Disarmament, first part, Geneva
February/March Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, New York
February/April Committee for the United Nations
(2 days) Population Award, New York
6 February-30 March Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York
19 February-16 March International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) (162nd session), Montreal
26 February-2 March Commission for Social Development acting as the preparatory committee for the Second World Assembly on Ageing, New York
26 February-2 March Ad Hoc Committee on the elaboration of a Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, Vienna
26 February-2 March Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group A, and informal/expert meetings, Vienna
26 February-2 March Commission on Sustainable Development, Ad Hoc Open-ended Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Energy and Sustainable Development, New York
26 February-2 March Open-ended consultations of the plenary of the General Assembly on the special session on HIV/AIDS, New York
26 February-9 March Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court, New York
26 February-9 March Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Structural Adjustment, Geneva
March/April International Research and Training Institute
(one week) for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), Board of Trustees (twenty-first session), Santo Domingo
Meetings beginning in March:
March Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, Geneva
March/April United Nations Staff Pension Committee
(1 meeting) New York
6-9 March Statistical Commission (thirty-second session), New York
6-9 March Inter-sessional Open-ended Working Group of the Preparatory Committee for the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Geneva
6-16 March Commission on the Status of Women (forty-fifth session), New York
6-16 March Commission on Sustainable Development, inter-sessional ad hoc open-ended working groups, New York
6-23 March Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (fifty-eighth session), Geneva
8-30 March International Labour Organisation (ILO), Governing Body and its committees
(280th session), Geneva
12-16 March Human Rights Committee, Working Group on Communications, New York
12-23 March United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Electronic Commerce (thirty-eighth session), New York
12 March-6 April General Assembly, Fifth Committee, resumed (fifty-fifth session), New York
13-15 March Security Council, Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolution 687 (1991), (thirty-ninth session), Geneva
19-22 March International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna
19 March-27 April Commission on Human Rights (fifty-seventh session), Geneva
19-30 March Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (third session), New York
19 March-6 April Human Rights Committee (seventy-first session), New York
20-29 March Commission on Narcotic Drugs (forty-fourth session), Vienna
21-26 March Committee of the Whole of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Vienna
28-30 March Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, Geneva
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