TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN JANUARY 2003

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

Meetings beginning in January:

January                             Joint Meeting of the Executive Boards of

(1 day)                             United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/

                                    United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and World Food Programme (WFP)(1 meeting), New York

January                             Consultative Committee on the United Nations Development Fund for Women, forty-third session, New York

January/February                    United Nations Staff Pension Committee (1 meeting), New York

3 January, once                     Military Staff Committee, New York

every fortnight thereafter

6-17 January                        Commission on Human Rights, intersessional working group on enforced or involuntary disappearances, Geneva

7 January                           Economic and Social Council, election of Bureau, New York

8-24 January                        Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, resumed 2002 session, New York

13-17 January                       United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Executive Board, first regular session, New York

13-17 January and 17-21 March       United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Working Party on the medium-term plan and the programme budget, fortieth session, first part, Geneva

13-24 January                       Ad Hoc Committee on the elaboration of a convention against corruption, fourth session, Vienna

13-31 January                       Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, twenty-eighth session, New York

13-31 January                       Committee on the Rights of the Child, thirty-second session, Geneva

13-31 January                       International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Committee, Montreal

20 January                          International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Programme and Budget Committee, Vienna

20-24 January                       UNDP and UNFPA, Executive Board, first regular session, New York

20-24 January                       UNCTAD, Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues, Geneva

20-24 January                       United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Board of Trustees, Geneva

20-28 January                       World Health Organization, Executive Board, Geneva

20-31 January                       Commission on Human Rights, intergovernmental working group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, Geneva

20 January-28 March                 Conference on Disarmament, first part, Geneva

23 January                          United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Committee of Permanent Representatives, extraordinary meeting, Nairobi

27 January                          Commission on Sustainable Development, organizational session, New York

27-31 January                       United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, fifty-first session, Vienna

28-31 January                       Economic and Social Council, organizational session, New York

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