TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MARCH 2004

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

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

3 February-26 March                 Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), New York

16 February-12 March                International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, Montreal

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

Meetings beginning in March:

March                               United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Board of Trustees, forty-second session, first part (2-3 days), Geneva

March                               International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), Executive Board (1 week), Santo Domingo

March/April                         Committee for the United Nations Population Award (2 days), New York

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

1-3 March                           Africa Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Addis Ababa

1-5 March                           Ad Hoc Committee on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property, New York

1-5 March                           Commission on Human Rights, Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Working Group on Minorities, Geneva

1-5 March                           Committee on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, Geneva

1-12 March                          Commission on the Status of Women, forty-eighth session, New York

2-5 March                           Statistical Commission, thirty-fifth session, New York

8-11 March                          International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna

8-12 March                          Group of government experts on the relationship between disarmament and development, second session, New York

8-12 March                          Human Rights Committee, Working Group on Communications, New York

8-12 March                          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, seventh session, Geneva

8 March-2 April                     General Assembly, Fifth Committee, resumed session, New York

9-11 March                          Security Council, Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolution 692 (1991), Geneva

10-12 March                         United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Trade and Development Board, executive session, Geneva

11-19 March                         United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, Board of Trustees, Geneva

11-26 March                         International Labour Organization (ILO), Governing Body and its committees, Geneva

14-16 March                         Western Asia Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Beirut

15-16 March                         Consultative Committee on the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), forty-fourth session, New York

15-19 March                         United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Electronic Commerce, New York

15-22 March                         Commission on Narcotic Drugs, forty-seventh session, Vienna

15 March-2 April                    Human Rights Committee, eightieth session, New York

15 March-23 April                   Commission on Human Rights, sixtieth session, Geneva

16-25 March                         Committee of the Whole of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (4 days), Vienna

22-26 March                         Commission on Population and Development, thirty-seventh session, New York

22-26 March                         UNCITRAL, Working Group on Security Interests, New York

22-26 March                         Advisory Group of the United Nations Trust Fund for the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People, Geneva

23-26 March                         Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague

29-31 March                         Asia and Pacific Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Bangkok

29-31 March                         Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Budget and Finance Committee, The Hague

29-31 March                         United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum, eighth special session, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea

29-March-2 April                    Committee for Development Policy, sixth session, New York

29 March-2 April                    Committee of Experts on Public Administration, New York

29 March-2 April                    UNCITRAL, Working Group on Insolvency Law, New York

29 March-8 April                    Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization, New York

29 March-8 April                    Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Legal Subcommittee, forty-third session, Vienna

29 March-16 April                   International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), fifty-eighth session, Paris

29 March-23 April                   Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and its Working Group, substantive session, New York

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