TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN SEPTEMBER 2001

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

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

27 August-14 September              Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group B, and informal/expert meetings, Vienna

31 August-7 September               World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Durban

Meetings beginning in September:

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

September                           United Nations Relief and Works Agency for

(1 day)                             Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Advisory Commission, Amman

September                           Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads

(1 week)                            of national drug law enforcement agencies, Latin America and the Caribbean region, Santiago

September/October                   United Nations Staff Pension Committee, New

(1 meeting)                         York

3-5 September                       Inter-sessional meeting of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to review the recommendations of the open-ended expert group on corruption, Vienna

3-7 September                       Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, pre-sessional working group, extraordinary session, Geneva

4 September-21 December             Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

5-7 September                       Committee on Information, resumed twenty-third session, New York

6-7 September                       Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, resumed tenth session, Vienna

10-12 September                     United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting, Geneva

10-14 September                     Executive Board of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), second regular session, New York

10-14 September                     Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, thirty-first session, Geneva

10-14 September                     Ad Hoc Group of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters, Geneva

10-14 September                     International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna

11 September-December               General Assembly, fifty-sixth session, New York

12-13 September                     International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Executive Board, Rome

17-18 September                     General Assembly, high-level dialogue on strengthening international economic cooperation for development through partnership, New York

17-21 September                     United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Working Party on the Medium-term Plan and the Programme Budget, thirty-eighth session, first part, Geneva

17-21 September                     International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), General Conference, Vienna

18-21 September                     Third Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, Managua

19-21 September                     Special session of the General Assembly on children, New York

24 September                        International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna

24-28 September                     Third 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

24-28 September                     United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Privately Financed Infrastructure Projects, fourth session, Vienna

24 September-3 October              World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Assemblies of Member States, Geneva

24 September-5 October              Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court, New York

24 September-12 October             Committee on the Rights of the Child, twenty-eight session, Geneva

25-27 September                     Second Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, New York

25-27 September                     Security Council, Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolution 692 (1991), forty-first session, Geneva

25-28 September                     Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague

25 September-5 October              International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Assembly, thirty-third session, Montreal

26-28 September                     United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting on electronic commerce and international transport service, Geneva

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