TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN JUNE 2003

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

5 May-6 June                        International Law Commission, fifty-fifth session (also 7 July-8 August), Geneva

6 May-18 July                       Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

12 May-27 June                      Conference on Disarmament, second part, Geneva

19 May-6 June                       Committee on the Rights of the Child, thirty-third session, Geneva

20 May-13 June                      International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, Montreal

26 May-6 June                       United Nations Forum on Forests, Geneva

26 May-6 June                       International Narcotics Control Board, seventy-seventh session, Vienna

26 May-6 June                       Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group B and informal/expert meetings, Vienna

Meetings beginning in June:

June                                Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations,

(1 day)                             organizational session, New York

June                                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), New York

June                                United Nations regional meeting for Asia and

(3 days)                            the Pacific on the question of Palestine, place to be determined

June/July                           Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (6-8 meetings per week, up to 30 meetings), New York

June/July                           International Law Seminar, Geneva

1-2 June                            Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Conference of African Ministers of Finance and Ministers of Economic Development and Planning, thirty-sixth session of the Commission, Addis Ababa

2-4 June                            United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board, Committee of Actuaries, Geneva

2-5 June                            Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights, Board of Trustees, Geneva

2-6 June                            Group of governmental experts on tracing (illicit small arms and light weapons), third session, New York

2-6 June                            Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, New York

2-6 June                            United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Executive Board, annual session, New York

2-6 June                            World Food Programme (WFP), Executive Board, second regular session, Rome

2-13 June                           UNFCCC, meetings of subsidiary bodies of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, Bonn

2-27 June                           Committee on Contributions, sixty-third session, New York

3-19 June                           International Labour Organization (ILO), International Labour Conference, Geneva

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

9-13 June                           Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, New York

9-20 June                           United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Executive Board, annual session, New York

9 June-3 July                       Committee for Programme and Coordination, forty-third session, New York

10-12 June                          Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories (Field mission 13-24 June), Geneva

10-13 June                          Committee on the Rights of the Child, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

10-13 June                          Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group A and informal/expert meetings, Vienna

11-20 June                          Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, forty-sixth session, Vienna

16-20 June                          Commission on Human Rights, Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Geneva

16-20 June                          International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna

16-20 June                          International Maritime Organization (IMO), Council, London

16-27 June                          Ad Hoc Committee to elaborate a convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, New York

16-27 June                          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, second session, Geneva

20 June                             International Labour Organization (ILO), Governing Body, Geneva

23-27 June                          Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Optional Protocol, New York

23-27 June                          Sixth meeting of governmental experts from landlocked and transit developing countries and representatives of donor countries and financial and development institutions and first session of the open-ended preparatory committee of the International Ministerial Conference of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and Donor Countries and International Financial and Development Institutions on Transit Transport Cooperation, New York

23-27 June                          Meeting of persons chairing human rights treaty bodies, Geneva

23-28 June                          Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Council, Rome

23 June-25 July                     United Nations Administrative Tribunal, Geneva

24-26 June                          Security Council, Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolution 692 (1991), forty-eighth session, Geneva

24-27 June                          Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, twentieth session, Vienna

24-27 June                          Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague

25 June                             United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Committee of Permanent Representatives, eighty-third meeting, Nairobi

25-27 June                          United Nations Board of Auditors, New York

25-27 June                          United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting on effectiveness of foreign direct investment policy measures, Geneva

30 June-4 July                      Subcommittee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Geneva

30 June-11 July                     United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, thirty-sixth session, Vienna

30 June-18 July                     Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, twenty-ninth session, New York

30 June-25 July                     Economic and Social Council, substantive session, Geneva

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