TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN DECEMBER 2002

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

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

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

November/December      United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),

(3 days)                            Inter-Agency Consultative Meeting, New York

12 November-6 December      International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, Montreal

25 November–4 December      Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, thirty-fifth session, Geneva

Meetings beginning in December:

December                            Disarmament Commission, organizational

(2 days)                            session, New York

December                            Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1 meeting), Geneva

December                            Security Council, Governing Council of the

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

2-6 December      Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

2-6 December      Subcommittee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Geneva

2-13 December      Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on a draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, Geneva

3 December                          United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Committee of Permanent Representatives, eighty-first meeting, Nairobi

4 December                          Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

                                    (1 meeting), New York

5 December                          Committee of Permanent Representatives to UN-Habitat, Nairobi

9-11 December      Subcommittee of Experts on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, Geneva

9-13 December      United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Insolvency Law, twenty-sixth session, Vienna

11-13 December      Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, Geneva

12-13 December      Meeting of States Parties and Annual Conference of the States Parties to Amended Protocol II of the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed of Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, Geneva

16-20 December      United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Security Interests, second session, Vienna

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