TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN SEPTEMBER 2002

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

29 July-13 September                Conference on Disarmament, third part, Geneva

26 August-4 September               World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg

26 August-13 September              Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group B and informal/expert meetings, Vienna

27 August-5 September               Eighth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names, Berlin

Meetings beginning in September:

September                           Security Council, Governing Council of the

(3 days)                            United Nations Compensation Commission, established pursuant to Security Council resolution 692 (1991), forty-fifth session, Geneva

September                           Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, Geneva

September                           United Nations Relief and Works Agency for

(1 day)                             Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Advisory Commission, Amman

September/October                   United Nations Staff Pension Committee (1 meeting), New York

September/October                   World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Assemblies of Member States, Geneva

September/October                   Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Subcommission on

(1 week)                            Illicit Drug Traffic and Related Matters in the Near and Middle East, Tehran

3-13 September                      Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court, first meeting (tentative date, New York

3 September-20 December             Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

4-5 September                       International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Executive Board, Rome

6 September                         United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, twenty-first session (also 26 August), Berlin

9 September                         Twenty-first Meeting of States Parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, New York

9-12 September                      International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna

9-13 September                      Committee on Conferences, (9,11 and 13 September), New York

9-13 September                      Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, thirty-fourth session, Geneva

9-13 September                      United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Privately Financed Infrastructure Projects, fifth session, Vienna

9-13 September                      Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads of national drug law enforcement agencies, African region, Nairobi

10 September                        United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Committee of Permanent Representatives, eightieth meeting, Nairobi

10-13 September                     Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague

10 September-December               General Assembly, fifty-seventh session, New York

16 September                        General Assembly, high-level plenary meeting on the review and appraisal of the New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, New York

16-20 September                     UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund), Executive Board, second regular session, New York

16-20 September                     Fourth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, Geneva

16-20 September                     United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Working Party on the medium-term plan and the programme budget, Geneva

16-20 September                     International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), General Conference, Vienna

16-20 September                     United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Transport Law, tenth session, Vienna

16 September-4 October              Committee on the Rights of the Child, thirty-first session, Geneva

19 September                        Committee of Permanent Representatives to UN-Habitat, Nairobi

23 September                        International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna

23-24 September                     Investments Committee, New York

23-24 September                     United Nations North American meeting in support of the Palestinian people, New York

23-27 September                     Executive Board of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), second regular session, New York

24-25 September                     United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Programme and Budget Committee, eighteenth session, Vienna

24-26 September                     Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole on the final review and appraisal of the New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, substantive session (also 7-11 October), New York

25-27 September                     United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting of the Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues, Geneva

30 September-3 October              Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group A and informal expert meetings, Vienna

30 September-4 October              United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Executive Committee, fifty-third session, Geneva

30 September-11 October             Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against Corruption, third session, Vienna

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