TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN OCTOBER 2003

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

September/October

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

2 September-19 December

Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

15 September-3 October

Committee on the Rights of the Child, thirty-fourth session, Geneva

16 September-December

General Assembly, fifty-eighth session, New York

22 September-1 October

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Assemblies of Member States, Geneva

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

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

29 September-3 October

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

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

Meetings beginning in October:

October

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Executive Board, Paris

6-10 October

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

6-17 October

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Trade and Development Board, fiftieth session, Geneva

6-17 October

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Transport Law, twelfth session, Vienna

6-24 October

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Committee, Montreal

13-17 October

Human Rights Committee, Working Group on Communications, Geneva

13-24 October

Universal Postal Union, Council of Administration, Berne

16 October

Advisory Committee on the United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law, thirty-eighth session, New York

16 October

World Food Day, Rome

17-24 October

World Tourism Organization, General Assembly, Beijing

20-24 October

Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, eighth session, The Hague

20-24 October

World Food Programme (WFP), Executive Board, third regular session, Rome

20 October-7 November

Human Rights Committee, seventy-ninth session, Geneva

20 October-21 November

United Nations Administrative Tribunal, New York

22-24 October

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

28-30 October

General Assembly, high-level dialogue on financing for development, New York

29 October-14 November

International Narcotics Control Board, seventy-eighth session, Vienna

29-31 October

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting on foreign direct investment and development, Geneva

31 October-1 November

United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, second regular session, New York

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