TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN FEBRUARY 2003

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

January/February      United Nations Staff Pension Committee

(1 meeting), New York

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

3 January-December      Military Staff Committee, New York

Meetings beginning in February:

February/March      Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, New York

February/March      Commission on Human Rights, working group on structural adjustment programmes (2 weeks), Geneva

3-6 February      United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities, Geneva

3-7 February      Assembly of the States Parties of the International Criminal Court, resumed first session (also 21-23 April), New York

3-7 February      Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Optional Protocol, New York

3-7 February      Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, pre-sessional working group, New York

3-7 February      Commission on Human Rights, working group of experts on people of African descent, Geneva

3-7 February      Committee on the Rights of the Child, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

3-7 February      International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), seventy-sixth session, Vienna

3-7 February      United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Governing Council, twenty-second session/ Global Ministerial Environment Forum, Nairobi

3-14 February      Commission on Human Rights, open-ended working group on the right to development, Geneva

4 February                          Special meeting of the States Parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, New York

4 February-28 March      Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), New York

5-7 February      Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, New York

10 February                         Ninth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, New York

10-14 February      Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Situations, Geneva

10-14 February      World Food Programme (WFP), Executive Board, first regular session, Rome

10-21 February      Commission for Social Development, forty-first session, New York

17-28 February      Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, fortieth session, Vienna

17 February-7 March      Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group B and informal/expert meetings, Vienna

17 February-14 March      International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, Montreal

18-19 February      Investments Committee, New York

19-20 February      International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Governing Council, Rome

20 February                         UNEP, Committee of Permanent Representatives, eighty-second meeting, Nairobi

24-26 February      United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, Board of Trustees (also 31 March-4 April), Geneva

24-28 February      Ad Hoc Committee on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and their Properties, New York

24-28 February      United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Insolvency Law, twenty-eighth session, New York

24-28 February      UNCTAD, Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development, Geneva

27 February-28 March      Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and its Working Group, substantive session, New York

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