TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN JANUARY 2004

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

Meetings beginning in January

January

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Committee, Montreal

January-February

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

7-9 January

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Working Group on Communications under the Optional Protocol to the Convention, New York

8 January

Economic and Social Council, election of Bureau, New York

12-23 January

Commission on Human Rights, Inter-sessional open-ended Working Group on a draft legally binding normative instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearances, Geneva

12-30 January

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, thirtieth session, New York

12-30 January

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

14 January

States Parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, twentieth meeting, New York

16 January, once every fortnight thereafter

Military Staff Committee, New York

19 January

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Programme and Budget Committee, Vienna

19-21 January

Asia and Pacific Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Bangkok

19-22 January

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Executive Board, first regular session, New York

19-24 January

World Health Organization (WHO), Executive Board, Geneva

19 January-26 March

Conference on Disarmament, first part, Geneva

23 and 26 January

Joint Meeting of the Executive Boards of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP), New York

26-30 January

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues, Geneva

26-30 January

United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Board of Trustees, Geneva

26 January-6 February

Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (meeting on Rules of Procedure of the Conference of States Parties), Vienna

26 January-6 February

Commission on Human Rights, intergovernmental working group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, Geneva

27-30 January

UNDP and UNFPA, Executive Board, first regular session, New York

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