TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN AUGUST 2003

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

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

14 July-8 AugustHuman Rights Committee, seventy-eighth session, Geneva

21 July-1 AugustGroup of Governmental Experts on the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms, New York

21 July-8 AugustAd Hoc Committee on the elaboration of a convention against corruption, sixth session, Vienna

28 July-15 August     Commission on Human Rights, Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, fifty-fifth session, Geneva

28 July-10 September  Conference on Disarmament, third part, Geneva

28 July-8 AugustInternational Seabed Authority, Assembly, ninth session, Kingston

Meetings beginning in August:

4-8 AugustAssembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court, Budget and Finance Committee, New York

4-22 August     Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, sixty-third session, Geneva

11-15 August    Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, seventieth session, Geneva

18-29 August    Commission on Human Rights, Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Working Group on Communications, Geneva

18-29 August    Meeting of experts of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, Geneva

25-29 August    Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, New York

25-27 August    Meeting of Senior Officials and second session of the open-ended intergovernmental 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, Almaty, Kazakhstan

25 August-5 SeptemberUnited Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Conference of the Parties to the Convention, sixth session, and meetings of subsidiary bodies, Havana

26-28 August    United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Industrial Development Board, Vienna

28-29 August    International Ministerial Conference of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and Donor Countries and International Financial and Development Institutions on Transit Transport Cooperation, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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