TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN SEPTEMBER 2003

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

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

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

Meetings beginning in September:

September/October      United Nations Staff Pension Committee (1 meeting), New York

1-5 September      Commission on Human Rights, working group on a draft legally binding normative instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearances, Geneva

1-5 September      Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, thirty-seventh session, Geneva

1-5 September      Preparatory process meetings for the eleventh session of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva

1-5 September      United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Insolvency Law, twenty-ninth session, Vienna

1-12 September      Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty Organization, Working Group B and informal/expert meetings, Vienna

2 September                         Special Meeting of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, New York

2 September-19 December      Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

3-5 September      Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, Vienna

4 September                         Committee of Permanent Representatives to United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), Nairobi

4-5 September      United Nations international meeting of civil society in support of the Palestinian people, New York

8-10 September      United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting on electronic commerce and the digital economy, Geneva

8-11 September      International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna

8-12 September      Assembly of the States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, second session, New York

8-12 September      Committee on Conferences (8, 10, and 12 September), New York

8-12 September      United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Executive Board, second regular session, New York

8-12 September      United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Security Interests, fourth session, Vienna

8-12 September      Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads of national drug law enforcement agencies, African region, Port Louis, Mauritius

10-11 September      International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Executive Board, Rome

10-14 September      World Trade Organization (WTO), Ministerial Conference, Cancun

15-19 September      United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Executive Board, second regular session, New York

15-19 September      United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Working Party on the Medium-term Plan and the Programme Budget, forty-first session, Geneva

15-19 September      International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), General Conference, Vienna

15-19 September      Fifth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, Bangkok

15-26 September      Commission on Human Rights, working group on a draft United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, Geneva

15 September-3 October      Committee on the Rights of the Child, thirty-fourth session, Geneva

16-18 September      Security Council, Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolution 692 (1991), forty-ninth session, Geneva

16 September-December      General Assembly, fifty-eighth session, New York

17 September      United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Committee of Permanent Representatives, eighty-fourth meeting, Nairobi

19 September      Investments Committee, New York

22 September      International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna

22 September-1 October      World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Assemblies of Member States, Geneva

23-24 September      Annual meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, Dubai

23-26 September      Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague

24-26 September      United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting on multimodal transport and logistics, Geneva

25 September      United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Advisory Commission, Amman

29 September-1 October      United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting, Geneva

29 September-3 October      United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Executive Committee, fifty-fourth session, Geneva

29 September-3 October      Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, Working Group A and informal/expert meeting, Vienna

29 September-10 October      Commission on Human Rights, working group of experts on people of African descent, Geneva

29 September-17 October      United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), General Conference, Paris

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