TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN OCTOBER 2002

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

September/October      United Nations Staff Pension Committee

                                    (1 meeting), New York

23 September-1 October      World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Assemblies of Member States, Geneva

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

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

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

Meetings beginning in October:

October                             United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Executive Board, Paris

1-2 October                         International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank, joint annual meetings of the Boards of Governors, Washington, D.C.

1-3 October                         Security Council, Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, established pursuant to Security Council resolution 692 (1991), forty-fifth session, Geneva

2-4 October                         United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting on environmental requirements and international trade, Geneva

7-11 October      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 24-26 September), New York

7-11 October      Committee on the Rights of the Child, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

7-11 October      Human Rights Committee, Working Group on Communications, Geneva

7-11 October      United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Arbitration, thirty-seventh session, Vienna

7-11 October      Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, seventh session, The Hague

7-18 October      Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on the Right to Development, Geneva

7-18 October      United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Trade and Development Board, forty-ninth session, Geneva

7-25 October      International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Committee, Montreal

14-18 October      United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Electronic Commerce, fortieth session, Vienna

14-18 October      Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Subcommission on Illicit Drug Traffic and Related Matters in the Near and Middle East, Tehran

14 October-1 November      Human Rights Committee, seventy-sixth session, Geneva

15-18 October      Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads of national drug law enforcement agencies, Latin America and the Caribbean region, Lima

16 October                          World Food Day, Rome

16-18 October      Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Meeting of Experts, Johannesburg

19-21 October      Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Conference of African Ministers of Finance and Ministers of Economic Development and Planning, thirty-fifth session of the Commission, Johannesburg

21-25 October      Executive Board of World Food Programme (WFP), third regular session, Rome

23 October-1 November      United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Conference of the Parties to the Convention, eighth session, and meetings of subsidiary bodies, New Delhi

28 October-2 November      Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Council, Rome

28 October-29 November      United Nations Administrative Tribunal, New York

28 October-30 October      United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting of the Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development, Geneva

29 October-31 October      Universal Postal Union (UPU), Strategic Conference, Geneva

30 October-15 November      International Narcotics Control Board, seventy-fifth session, Vienna

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