TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN DECEMBER 2003

The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in December, 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

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

24 November-5 December      International Maritime Organization (IMO), Assembly, London

29 November-10 December             Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Conference, Rome

Meetings beginning in December:

1 December                          Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Special Meeting in Observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, New York

1-2 December                        United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Executive Board, extraordinary budgetary session, New York

1-5 December                        Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

1-5 December                        United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), General Conference, tenth session, Vienna

1-5 December                        United Nations University (UNU), Council, fiftieth session, Tokyo

1-12 December                       United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Conference of the Parties to the Convention, ninth session, and meetings of subsidiary bodies, Milan

2-5 December                        Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague

3 December                          Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, New York

3-10 December                       Subcommittee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Geneva

4-5 December                        Preparatory process meetings for the eleventh session of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva

5 December                          IMO, Council, London

8 December                          Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva

8-12 December                       Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads of national drug law enforcement agencies, Asia and the Pacific region, Bangkok

9 December                          United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Committee of Permanent Representatives, eighty-fifth meeting, Nairobi

9-11 December                       High-level political conference for the purpose of signing the United Nations convention against corruption, Merida, Mexico

10-12 December      International Telecommunication Union (ITU), World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva

10-12 December                      Subcommittee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, Geneva

11 December                         First meeting of the States Parties to the International Convention on the Right of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, New York

11 December                         FAO, Council, Rome

15-19 December                      Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, resumed session, New York

15-19 December                      Ad Hoc Group of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters, Geneva

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

16-18 December                      United Nations regional meeting for Asia and the Pacific on the question of Palestine, Beijing

17-18 December      International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Executive Board, Rome

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