TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MARCH 2003

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

3 January-December      Military Staff Committee, New York

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

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

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

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

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

Meetings beginning in March:

March                               International Labour Organization (ILO), Governing Body and its committees, Geneva

March/April                         Committee for the United Nations Population

(2 days)                            Award, New York

March/April                         United Nations Staff Pension Committee

                                    (1 meeting), New York

March/April                         International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), Board of Trustees, twenty-third session (1 week), Santo Domingo

3-7 March                           United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Security Interests, third session, New York

3-7 March                           Group of governmental experts on tracing (illicit small arms and light weapons), second session, Geneva

3-14 March                          Commission on the Status of Women, forty-seventh session, New York

3-21 March                          Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, sixty-second session, Geneva

3-28 March                          General Assembly, Fifth Committee, resumed session, New York

4-5 March                           United Nations seminar on assistance to the Palestinian people, Paris (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Headquarters)

4-6 March                           Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), fifty-

(4 days)                            eighth session, Geneva

4-7 March                           Statistical Commission, thirty-fourth session, New York

10-14 March                         Group of governmental experts of the States parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed To Be Excessively Injurious or To Have Indiscriminate Effects, first session, Geneva

10-14 March                         Human Rights Committee, Working Group on Communications, Geneva

10-21 March                         Ad Hoc Committee on the elaboration of a convention against corruption, fifth session, Vienna

11-13 March                         Security Council, Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolution 692 (1991), forty-seventh session, Geneva

17-20 March                         International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna

17-21 March                         Group of Governmental Experts on the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms, New York

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 (13-17 January), Geneva

17 March-4 April      Human Rights Committee, seventy-seventh session, Geneva

17 March-24 April      Commission on Human Rights, fifty-ninth session, Geneva

18-21 March                         Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague

24-28 March                         Ad Hoc Committee on the scope of legal protection under the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel, New York

24 March-4 April      United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Transport Law, eleventh session, New York

24 March-4 April      Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Legal Subcommittee, forty-second session, Vienna

31 March-2 April      Ad Hoc Committee established by General Assembly resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996, New York

31 March-4 April      Commission on Population and Development, thirty-sixth session, New York

31 March-4 April      United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, Board of Trustees (also

                                    24-26 February), Geneva

31 March-17 April      Disarmament Commission, New York

31 March-18 April      International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), fifty-sixth session, Bangkok

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