TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN JUNE 2002

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

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

May/June                            United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Executive Board, Paris

13 May-28 June                      Conference on Disarmament, second part, Geneva

21 May-7 June                       Committee on the Rights of the Child, thirtieth session, Geneva

21 May-7 June                       International Law Seminar, Geneva

21 May-7 June                       Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group B and informal/expert meetings, Vienna

21 May-14 June                      International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council, Montreal

27 May-7 June                       Commission on Sustainable Development acting as the preparatory committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, ministerial level, fourth session, Bali

Meetings beginning in June:

June                                Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations,

(1 day)                             organizational session, New York

June                                International Maritime Organization (IMO) Council, London

June                                United Nations African meeting on the question

(3 days)                            of Palestine, location to be determined

June/July                           Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (6-8 meetings per week, up to 30 meetings), New York

3-4 June                            Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, The Hague

3-6 June                            Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights, Board of Trustees, Geneva

3-7 June                            United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Executive Board, annual session, New York

3-14 June                           United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), meetings of subsidiary bodies of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, Bonn

3-21 June                           Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women, twenty-seventh session, New York

3-21 June                           Committee on Contributions, sixty-second session, New York

4-20 June                           International Labour Organization (ILO), General Conference, ninetieth session, Geneva

5 June                              Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole on the final review and appraisal of the New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, organizational session, New York

5-14 June                           Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, forty-fifth session, Vienna

6-7 June                            Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, Arusha

8-15 June                           Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, Kigali/Addis Ababa/Asmara

10-13 June                          United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board, Committee on Actuaries, New York

10-13 June                          World Food Summit, Rome

10-14 June                          Committee on the Rights of the Child, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

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

10 June-5 July                      Committee for Programme and Coordination, forty-second session, first part, New York

12-14 June                          United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting of the Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues, Geneva

13 June                             United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Question, Nairobi

17-18 June                          Meeting of the General Assembly devoted to information and communication technologies for development, New York

17-19 June                          Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, Nairobi

17-21 June                          Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, thirty-third session, Geneva

17-28 June                          United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, thirty-fifth session, New York

17-28 June                          Executive Board of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), annual session, Geneva

17-28 June                          Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against Corruption, second session, Vienna

18-20 June                          Security Council, Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, established pursuant to Security Council resolution 692 (1991), forty-fourth session, Geneva

20-21 June                          Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, Paris

24-28 June                          Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, pre-sessional working group, New York

24-28 June                          Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Optional Protocol, New York

24-28 June                          Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, New York

24-28 June                          Meeting of persons chairing human rights treaty bodies, Geneva

24 June-26 July                     United Nations Administrative Tribunal, Geneva

25-28 June                          Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group A and informal/expert meetings, Vienna

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

26-28 June                          United Nations Board of Auditors, New York

26-28 June                          United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting of the Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities, Geneva

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