TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN FEBRUARY 2004

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN FEBRUARY 2004

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

19 January-26 March

Conference on Disarmament, first part, 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

Meetings beginning in February:

February

Committee of Permanent Representatives to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi

February

Western Asia Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, place to be determined

February/March

Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, New York

February/March

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, Montreal

3-4 February

Organizational meeting of the Open-ended working group on an International Instrument to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons, New York

3-4 February

Economic and Social Council, organizational session, New York

3-6 February

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, pre-sessional working group, New York

3-6 February

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

3 February-26 March

Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), New York

4-6 February

Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, New York

4-13 February

Commission on Social Development, forty-second session, New York

5-13 February

Universal Postal Union (UPU), Postal Operations Council, Berne

9-10 February

Investments Committee, New York

9-13 February

Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Situations, Geneva

9-13 February

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities, Geneva

9-13 February

International Narcotics Control Board, seventy-ninth session, Vienna

9-20 February

Commission on Human Rights, open-ended working group on the right to development, Geneva

9-27 February

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

11-13 February

General meeting on cooperation between the representatives of the secretariats of the United Nations system and the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States and its specialized organizations, Cairo

13 February

Preparatory Meeting of the First Review Conference 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 (also 28-29 June 2004), Geneva

16-20 February

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

16-27 February

Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, forty-first session, Vienna

18-19 February

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Governing Council, Rome

23-27 February

Panel of governmental experts on missiles, first session, New York

23-27 February

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Arbitration, fortieth session, New York

23 February-5 March

Working Group on Reimbursement of Contingent-owned Equipment, New York

23 February-5 March

Commission on Human Rights, open-ended working group to elaborate an optional protocol to the International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Geneva

23 February-12 March

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, sixty-fourth session, Geneva

24-26 February

Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), fifty-ninth session, Geneva

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