TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MAY 2001

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

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

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

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-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

Meetings beginning in May:

May                                 United Nations international meeting on the

(3 days)                            question of Palestine (to be determined)

May/June                            World Health Organization (WHO), Executive Board (108^th session), Geneva

1 May                               Economic and Social Council, special high-level meeting with the Bretton Woods institutions, New York

1 May-13 July                       Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

2 May                               Committee for Programme and Coordination, (organizational session), New York

2-4 May                             Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, Geneva

2-4 May                             United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Programme and Budget Committee (seventeenth session), Vienna

2-7 May                             Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Technical Preparatory Committee of the Whole (twentieth session), Algiers    

2-8 May                             Preparatory Committee for the international conference on financing for development (third substantive session), New York

3-4 May                             Economic and Social Council (resumed organizational session), New York

7-8 May                             Investments Committee, New York

7-10 May                            International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Programme and Budget Committee, Vienna

7-11 May                            Second Meeting of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Ocean Affairs, New York

7-11 May                            Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) (fifty-sixth session), Geneva

7-25 May                            Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, New York           

7 May-1 June                        General Assembly, Fifth Committee, (resumed fifty-fifth session), New York

8-9 May                             Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), Technical Committee, Beirut

8-10 May                            Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)(twenty-fifty meeting) of the Conference of Ministers; (thirty-fourth session) of the Commission, Algiers

8-17 May                            Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (tenth session), Vienna

8-17 May                            Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal

(12 meetings)                       Justice, parallel meetings for informal consultations and working groups, Vienna

10-11 May                           Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) (twenty-first session), Beirut

14-18 May                           Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (sixth session), The Hague

14-18 May                           Meeting of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, New York

14-18 May                           Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (thirtieth session), Geneva

14-18 May                           Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva

14-18 May                           Commission on Human Rights, Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Working Group on Minorities, Geneva

14-20 May                           Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Brussels

14-23 May                           World Health Organization (WHO), World Health Assembly (fifty-fourth session), Geneva

14-25 May                           Executive Board of World Food Programme (WFP)

(if required)                       (second regular session), Rome

14 May-29 June                      Conference on Disarmament (second part), Geneva

21-25 May                           Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (ninth session), New York

21-25 May                           Open-ended consultations of the plenary of the General Assembly on the special session on HIV/AIDS, New York

21-25 May                           Executive Board of World Programme (WFP) (annual session), Rome

21-25 May                           International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), Board of Trustees (twenty-first session), Santo Domingo

21 May-1 June                       United Nations Conference on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Arbitration (thirty-fourth session), New York

21 May-1 June                       Commission on Human Rights acting as the Preparatory Committee for the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (second session), Geneva

21 May-1 June                       Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture (twentieth session), Geneva

21 May-1 June                       International Narcotics Control Board (seventy-first session), Vienna

21 May-1 June                       United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, meetings of subsidiary bodies of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, Bonn

22 May-29 June                      International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, (163^rd session), Montreal

21 May-8 June                       Committee on the Rights of the Child (twenty-seventh session), Geneva

22-25 May                           Regional seminar to review the situation in Non-Self-Governing Territories under the Second Decade on the Eradication of Colonialism, Havana

28-31 May                           Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Committee on World Food Security, Rome

28 May-1 June                       Commission on Science and Technology for Development (fifth session), Geneva

28 May-13 June                      United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Executive Board (161^st session), Paris

29-31 May                           United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board, Committee of Actuaries, New York

29 May-1 June                       High-level Committee on the Review of Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries (twelfth session), New York

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