TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN NOVEMBER 2001

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

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

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

15 October-2 November               Human Rights Committee, seventy-third session, Geneva

15 October-2 November               International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Committee, one hundred and sixty-fourth session, Montreal

15 October-3 November               United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), General Conference, thirty-first session, Paris

22 October-30 November              United Nations Administrative Tribunal, New York

29 October-9 November               United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Conference of the Parties to the Convention, seventh session, and meetings of subsidiary bodies, Marrakesh

29 October-15 November              International Narcotics Control Board, seventy-second session, Vienna

30 October-1 November               Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Council, one hundred and twenty-first session, Rome

Meetings beginning in November:

November                            Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for

(1 meeting)                         the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, New York

November                            Consultations with civil society organizations

(3 days)                            on the question of Palestine, Geneva

November/December                   United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),

(3 days)                            Inter-Agency Consultative Meeting, New York

1-16 November                       International Labour Organization (ILO), Governing Body and its committees, two hundred and eighty-second session, Geneva

2-13 November                       Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Conference, thirty-first session, Rome

4-7 November                        Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Subcommission on Illicit Drug Traffic and Related Matters in the Near and Middle East, Abu Dhabi

5-6 November                        Investments Committee, New York

5-6 November                        United Nations Pledging Conference for Development Activities, New York

5-7 November                        United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting on the impact of FDI policies on Industrialization, Geneva

12-23 November                      Committee against Torture, twenty-seventh session, Geneva

12-30 November                      Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, twenty-fifth session, Geneva

14 November                         Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Council, one hundred and twenty-second session, Rome

14-16 November                      United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) expert meeting on mainstreaming gender in order to promote opportunities, Geneva

14-23 November                      Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, sixty-fifth session, Geneva

16 November                         International Maritime Organization (IMO), Council, twenty-first extraordinary session, London

19-23 November                      Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty Organization, sixteenth session, Vienna

19-30 November                      United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Arbitration, thirty-fifth session, Vienna

19-30 November                      International Maritime Organization (IMO), Assembly, twenty-second session, London

19 November-7 December              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

19 November-14 December             International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, one hundred and sixty-fourth session, Montreal

26-28 November                      International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Technical Assistance and Cooperation Committee, Vienna

26 November-5 December              Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, thirty-second session, Geneva

27 November-4 December              Panel of External Auditors of the United Nations, the Specialized Agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), location to be determined

28 November                         Eighth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Geneva

29 November                         Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Special Meeting in Observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, New York

29-30 November                      International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna

30 November                         International Maritime Organization (IMO), Council, eighty-seventh session, London

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