TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN APRIL 2001

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

March/April                         United Nations Staff Pension Committee

(1 meeting)                         New York

12 March-6 April                    General Assembly, Fifth Committee, resumed (fifty-fifth session), New York

19 March-6 April                    Human Rights Committee (seventy-first session), New York

19 March-27 April                   Commission on Human Rights (fifty-seventh session), Geneva

Meetings beginning in April:

April                               United Nations African meeting on the question

(3 days)                            of Palestine (to be determined)

April                               Commission on Sustainable Development

(1 meeting)                         (organizational session), New York

April                               United Nations Institute for Training and

(1 week)                            Research (UNITAR), Board of Trustees (thirty-ninth session), Geneva

April/May                           Economic and Social Council, special

(1 day)                             high-level meeting with the Bretton Woods institutions, New York

2-5 April                           Advisory Group of the United Nations Trust Fund for the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People, Geneva

2-6 April                           Second meeting of the 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

2-6 April                           Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee for the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (third session),  New York

2-6 April                           Commission on Population and Development (thirty-fourth session), New York

2-6 April                           Committee for Development Policy (third session), New York

2-12 April                          Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization, New York

2-12 April                          Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Legal Subcommittee (fortieth session), Vienna

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

9 April                             Committee for the United Nations Population Award, New York

9-10 April                          Special meeting of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, New York

9-27 April                          Disarmament Commission, New York

16-27 April                         Commission on Sustainable Development (ninth session), New York

17 April-4 May                      International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Committee, (163^rd session), Montreal

18-20 April                         Group of Governmental Experts to prepare a United Nations study on disarmament and non-proliferation education (first session),    New York

18-27 April                         United Postal Union (UPU), Postal Operations Council, Berne

19-25 April                         Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), (fifty-seventh session), Bangkok

23-27 April                         Ad Hoc Group of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters, New York

23-27 April                         United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (fiftieth session), Vienna

23-27 April                         Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), Technical Committee, Beirut

23 April-11 May                     Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (twenty-fourth session), Geneva

23 April-11 May                     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-third session), Geneva

23 April-1 June                     International Law Commission (fifty-third session, first part), Geneva

24-27 April                         Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (fourteenth session), Vienna

25-26 April                         International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Executive Board, Rome

25-27 April                         Preparatory Committee for the Fifth Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, Geneva

30 April-2 May                      Commission on Sustainable Development (tenth session), meeting of the Commission as the preparatory committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, New York

30 April-4 May                      Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (sixty-third) session, New York

30 April-4 May                      Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and its Working Group (substantive session), New York

30 April-11 May                     Committee on Information (twenty-third session), New York

30 April-11 May                     Preparatory Committee for the high-level international intergovernmental event on financing for development (third substantive session), New York

30 April-18 May                     Committee against Torture (twenty-sixth session), Geneva

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