ORG/1331                                                                      29 June 2001

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN JULY 2001

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

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

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

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

25 June-27 July                     United Nations Administrative Tribunal, Geneva

Meetings beginning in July:

July                                General Assembly, Fourth Committee (resumed

(2 days)                            fifty-fifth session), New York

2-6 July                            Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and its Working Group, substantive session, New York

2-4 July                            United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, Geneva

2-6 July                            Human Rights Committee, Working Group on Communications, Geneva

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2-13 July                           Subcommittee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and Subcommittee of Experts on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, Geneva

2-13 July                           Assembly of the International Seabed Authority (seventh session), Kingston

2-20 July                           Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (twenty-fifth session), New York

2-20 July                           International Law Seminar, Geneva

2-27 July                           Economic and Social Council, substantive session, Geneva

2 July-10 August                    International Law Commission (fifty-third session, second part), Geneva

9-13 July                           United Nations Joint Staff Pension, Standing Committee, New York

9-20 July                           United Nations Conference on Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, New York

9-27 July                           Human Rights Committee (seventy-second session), Geneva

16-18 July                          United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting on ways to enhance the production and export capacities of developing countries of agriculture and food products, Geneva

16-27 July                          United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Conference of the Parties to the Convention (resumed sixth session), Bonn

17-19 July                          General meeting on cooperation between the representatives of the secretariats of the United Nations system and the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States and its specialized organizations, Vienna

17-20 July                          United Nations international meeting on the question of Palestine, Madrid

23-25 July                          United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting on energy services in international trade, Geneva

23-27 July                          Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Pre-sessional Working Group, New York

23-27 July                          Commission on Human Rights, Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Working Group on Indigenous Populations, Geneva

23 July–3 August                    United Nations Conference on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Insolvency Law (twenty-fourth session),

                                    New York

23 July-10 August                   Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination (fifty-ninth session), Geneva

23 July-17 August                   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-fourth session), Geneva

30-31 July                          Investments Committee, New York

30 July-3 August                    Panel of Governmental Experts on Missiles in All Their Aspects (first session), New York

30 July-3 August                    Open-ended expert group to examine and prepare draft terms of reference for a legal instrument against corruption, Vienna

30 July-3 August                    United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), meeting of governmental experts from landlocked and transit developing countries and representatives of donor countries and financial and development institutions, New York

30 July-17 August                   Commission on Human Rights, Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (fifty-third session), Geneva

30 July–14 September                Conference on Disarmament (third part), Geneva

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