TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN DECEMBER 2001

The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in December, 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

November/December                   United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),

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

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 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

Meetings beginning in December:

December                            Disarmament Commission, organizational session

(2 days)                            New York

                                    - 2 -                   Press Release OR/1341

                                                            30 November 2001

December                            Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for

(1 meeting)                         the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva

3-7 December                        Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva

3-7 December                        United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), General Conference, ninth session, Vienna

3-7 December                        United Nations University (UNU), Council, forty-eighth session, Tokyo

3-14 December                       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

3-14 December                       United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Insolvency Law, twenty-fifth session, Vienna

4-7 December                        Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague

5 December                          United Nations Board of Auditors, special session, location to be determined

5-6 December                        International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Executive Board, Rome

10 December                         Annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II 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

10 December                         United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Committee of Permanent Representatives, seventy-seventh meeting, Nairobi

10-14 December                      United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Executive Board, second regular and extraordinary budgetary session, New York

10-14 December                      United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development, Geneva

11-13 December                      Security Council, Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolution 692 (1991), forty-second session, Geneva

11-21 December                      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

12-14 December                      Commission on Narcotic Drugs, resumed forty-fourth session, Vienna

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