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TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN JUNE 2001

31/05/2001
Press Release
ORG/1330


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN JUNE 2001


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


Meetings continued from previous month:


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


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


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


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


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, (163rd session), Montreal



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


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 (161st session), Paris


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


Meetings beginning in June:


June                                Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations,

(1 day)                             organizational session, New York


June/July                           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


June/July                           Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads

(1 week)                            of national drug law enforcement agencies, African region, Pretoria


4-8 June                            United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Executive Board, annual session, New York


5-8 June                            Board of Trustees of the Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights (fifteenth session), Geneva


5-15 June                           World Meteorological Organization, Executive Council (fifty-third session), Geneva


5-21 June                           International Labour Organization (ILO), General Conference (eighty-ninth session), Geneva


5-22 June                           Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group B, and informal/expert meetings/on-site inspection, Vienna


6-8 June                            General Assembly, special session for an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the Habitat Agenda, New York


6-15 June                           Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (forty-fourth session), Vienna


11-15 June                          International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna

11-15 June                          Preparatory Committee for the special session of the General Assembly on children, third substantive session, New York


11-15 June                          Committee on the Rights of the Child, Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva


11-15 June                          Commission on Human Rights, Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Geneva


11-22 June                          Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), annual session, New York


11-22 June                          United Nations Forum on Forests, New York


11-29 June                          Committee on Contributions (sixty-first session), New York


11-29 June                          International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) (fifty-third session), Montreal


11 June-6 July                      Committee for Programme and Coordination (forty-first session), New York


12-14 June                          United Nations Latin American and Caribbean meeting on the question of Palestine, Havana


13-15 June                          United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting on international arrangements for transfer of technology, Geneva


18-22 June                          International Meteorological Organization (IMO), Council (eighty-sixth session), London


18-22 June                          Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and its Working Group (substantive session), New York


18-22 June                          Meeting of persons chairing human rights treaty bodies, Geneva


18-23 June                          Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Council (120th session), Rome


18-29 June                          International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Council, Geneva


19-21 June                          Security Council, Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolution 687 (1991) (fortieth session), Geneva


19-22 June                          United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Vienna


22 June                             International Labour Organization (ILO), Governing Body and its committees (281st session), Geneva


25-27 June                          Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, Geneva


25-27 June                          Special session of the General Assembly on HIV/AIDS, New York


25-28 June                          Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group A, and informal/expert meetings, Vienna


25 June-13 July                     United Nations Conference on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Vienna


25 June-27 July                     United Nations Administrative Tribunal, Geneva


27-28 June                          Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague


27-29 June                          United Nations Board of Auditors, New York


28-29 June                          Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and its Working Group, substantive session, New York


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