TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MARCH 2002

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

21 January-28 March                 Conference on Disarmament, first part, Geneva

February/March                      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

5 February-28 March                 Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), New York

11 February-8 March                 Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and its Working Group, substantive session, New York

18 February-15 March                International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, Montreal

25 February-1 March                 Commission for Social Development acting as the preparatory committee for the Second World Assembly on Ageing, second session, New York

25 February-1 March                 Ad Hoc Committee on an international convention against the reproductive cloning of human beings, New York

25 February-8 March                 Commission on Human Rights, open-ended working group on the right to development, Geneva

25 February-8 March                 Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, thirty-ninth session, Vienna

Meetings beginning in March:

March/April                         United Nations Staff Pension Committee

                                    (1 meeting), New York

March/April                         United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Committee of Permanent Representatives, seventy-eighth meeting, Nairobi

4-8 March                           United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Arbitration, thirty-sixth session, New York

4-15 March                          Commission on the Status of Women, forty-sixth session, New York

4-15 March                          United Nations Forum on Forests, second session, New York

4-15 March                          General Assembly, Fifth Committee, resumed session, New York

4-22 March                          Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, sixtieth session, Geneva

5-8 March                           Statistical Commission, thirty-third session, New York

5-8 March                           Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group A and informal/expert meetings, Vienna

7 March                             Committee of Permanent Representatives to UN-Habitat, Nairobi

7 March & 10 April                  Committee for the United Nations Population Award, New York

7-22 March                          International Labour Organization (ILO), Governing Body and its committees,         283rd session, Geneva

11-15 March                         Human Rights Committee, Working Group on Communications, New York

11-15 March                         UNCITRAL, Working Group on Electronic Commerce, thirty-ninth session, New York

11-15 March                         Group of Governmental Experts to prepare a United Nations study on disarmament and non-proliferation education, third session, Geneva

11-15 March                         Commission on Narcotic Drugs, forty-fifth session, Vienna

11-15 March                         Committee of the Whole of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Vienna

12-14 March                         Security Council, Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, established pursuant to Security Council resolution 692 (1991), forty-third session, Geneva

18-21 March                         International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna

18-22 March                         International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey

18-28 March                         Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization, New York

18 March-5 April                    Human Rights Committee, seventy-fourth session, New York

18 March-26 April                   Commission on Human Rights, fifty-eighth session, Geneva

19-22 March                         Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague

25-27 March                         Panel of Eminent Personalities on African Development, New York

25-28 March                         Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, New York

25 March-5 April                    Commission o Sustainable Development acting as the preparatory committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, New York

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