TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN APRIL 2003

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

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

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

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

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, Geneva

31 March-17 April                   Disarmament Commission, New York

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

Meetings beginning in April:

April                               United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Board of Trustees,
forty-first session (1 week), Geneva

3 April                             Committee of Permanent Representatives to United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UN-Habitat), Nairobi

7-11 April                          Committee for Development Policy,
fifth session, New York

7-11 April                          Committee of Experts on Public Administration and Development, New York

7-11 April                          Advisory Group of the United Nations Trust Fund for the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People, Geneva

7-11 April                          Preparatory process meetings for
the eleventh session of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva

7-17 April                          Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization, New York

8-15 April                          Commission on Narcotic Drugs,
forty-sixth session, Vienna

8-17 April                          Committee of the Whole of the Commission on

(4 days)                            Narcotic Drugs, Vienna

9 April                             Committee for the United Nations
Population Award, New York

9-10 April                          International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Executive Board, Rome

14 April                            Economic and Social Council, special
high-level meeting with the Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade Organization, New York

14-15 April                         Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), Preparatory Committee, Beirut

14 April-2 May                      International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Committee, Montreal

16-17 April                         Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Ministerial Level, forty-sixth session, Vienna

16-17 April                         Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), twenty-second session, Beirut

21-23 April                         Assembly of the States Parties of the International Criminal Court, resumed first session, second part, New York

21-24 April                         Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, sixty-ninth session, New York

22-24 April                         Committee against Torture, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

24-30 April                         Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), fifty-ninth session, Bangkok

25-26 April                         United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, first regular session, Paris (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Headquarters)

28-30 April                         United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Programme and
Budget Committee, nineteenth session, Vienna

28 April-2 May                      Commission on the Limits of
the Continental Shelf, New York

28 April-9 May                      Commission on Sustainable Development, eleventh session, New York

28 April-9 May                      Committee on Information,
twenty-fifth session, New York

28 April-9 May                      Preparatory Committee for the 2005 Review Conference of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, second session, Geneva

28 April-9 May                      Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, First Review Conference of the Chemical Weapons Convention, The Hague

28 April-16 May                     Committee against Torture, thirtieth session, Geneva

29-30 April                         Economic and Social Council, resumed organizational session, New York

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