TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN APRIL 2002

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

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

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

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

Meetings beginning in April:

April/May                           Disarmament Commission (3 weeks), New York

1-5 April                           Ad Hoc Committee on the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel, New York

1-5 April                           Commission on Population and Development, thirty-fifth session, New York

1-5 April                           Panel of Governmental Experts on Missiles in All Their Aspects, second session, New York

2-12 April                          Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, thirty-ninth session, Vienna

3-5 April                           Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, Geneva

8-12 April                          Committee for Development Policy, fourth session, New York

8-12 April                          Advisory Group of the United Nations Trust Fund for the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People, Geneva

8-12 April                          Second World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid

8-15 April                          Open-ended informal Consultative Process on Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, New York

8-19 April                          Preparatory Committee for the 2005 Review Conference of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, first session, New York

8-19 April                          Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court, New York

8-26 April                          Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, The Hague

9-12 April                          Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, seventeenth session, Vienna

10-11 April                         United Nations System Chief Executive Board for Coordination, first regular session, Rome (FAO Headquarters)

15-26 April                         United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Transport Law, ninth session, New York

15 April-3 May                      International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Committee, Montreal

16-17 April                         United Nations International Meeting in Support of Middle East Peace, Nicosia

16-25 April                         Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, eleventh session, Vienna

16-25 April                         Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, parallel meetings for informal consultations and working groups

                                    (12 meetings), Vienna

16-26 April                         Meeting of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, New York

18 April                            United Nations International NGO meeting in Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Nicosia

22-26 April                         Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, sixty-sixth session, New York

22-26 April                         Committee against Torture, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

22 April-2 May                      Committee on Information, twenty-fourth session, New York

22 April-3 May                      International Telecommunications Union, Council, Geneva

22 April-10 May                     International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), fifty-fourth session, Rome (FAO Headquarters)

23 April                            Special high-level meeting between the Economic and Social Council and the Bretton Woods institutions, New York

23-24 April                         International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Executive Board, Rome

29-30 April                         Economic and Social Council, resumed organization session, New York

29 April-2 May                      United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Trade and Development Board, nineteenth special session (mid-term review), Bangkok

29 April-17 May                     Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, twenty-eighth session, Geneva

29 April-17 May                     Committee against Torture, twenty-eighth session, Geneva

29 April-7 June                     International Law Commission, fifty-fourth session, Geneva

30 April-2 May                      United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Board of Trustees, fortieth session, Geneva

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