TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN NOVEMBER 2003

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

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

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

20 October-7 November               Human Rights Committee, seventy-ninth session, Geneva

20 October-21 November              United Nations Administrative Tribunal, New York

29 October-14 November              International Narcotics Control Board, seventy-eighth session, Vienna

31 October-3 November               United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, second regular session, New York

Meetings beginning in November:

3-7 November                        Committee against Torture, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

4 November                          United Nations Pledging Conference for Development Activities, New York

6 November                          Disarmament Commission, organizational session, New York

6-21 November                       International Labour Organization (ILO), Governing Body and its committees, Geneva

10-11 November                      Preparatory process meeting for the eleventh session of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva

10-13 November                      Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights, Board of Trustees, Geneva

10-14 November                      Annual meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, Geneva

10-14 November                      Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, twenty-first session, Vienna

10-14 November                      United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Arbitration, thirty-ninth session, Vienna

10-19 November                      Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, seventy-first session, Geneva

10-21 November                      Committee against Torture, thirty-first session, Geneva

10-28 November                      Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, thirty-first session, Geneva

10 November-5 December              International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, Montreal

11-18 November                      Panel of External Auditors of the United Nations, the Specialized Agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna

17-19 November                      IAEA, Board of Governors, Technical Assistance and Cooperation Committee, Vienna

17-21 November                      Group of government experts on the relationship between disarmament and development, first session, Geneva

17-21 November                      Preparatory process meetings for the eleventh session of UNCTAD, Geneva

17-21 November                      UNCITRAL, Working Group on Electronic Commerce, forty-second session, Vienna

17-24 November                      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, sixth session, Geneva

19 November                         United Nations Board of Auditors, special session, Vienna

19-28 November                      Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, thirty-eighth session, Geneva

20-21 November                      IAEA, Board of Governors, Vienna

21 November                         International Maritime Organization (IMO), Council, extraordinary session, London

24 November                         Investments Committee, New York

24 November-5 December              IMO, Assembly, London

26 November                         Fifth Annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II 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, Geneva

26 November                         Ninth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Geneva

26-28 November                      UNCTAD, expert meeting on market entry conditions affecting competitiveness and exports of goods and services of developing countries, Geneva

26-28 November                      Commission on Narcotic Drugs, resumed forty-sixth session, Vienna

26-28 November                      Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Council, Rome

27-28 November                      Annual meeting 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, Geneva

29 November-10 December             FAO, Conference, Rome

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