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ORG/1410

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN APRIL 2004

31/03/2004
Press Release
ORG/1410


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN APRIL 2004


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


Meetings continued from previous month:


March/April                         Committee for the United Nations Population

(2 days)                            Award, New York


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


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


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                    United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (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



Meetings beginning in April


April                               Committee of Permanent Representatives to UN-Habitat, Nairobi


April                               Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations,

(1 day)                             organizational session, New York


2-3 April                           United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, first regular session, Vienna


5-23 April                          Disarmament Commission, New York


12-16 April                         Ad Hoc Committee on the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel, New York


13-30 April                         International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Committee, Montreal


14-16 April                         Commission on Sustainable Development acting as the preparatory committee for the International Meeting to Review the Implementation of the Programme Action for Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, New York


14-29 April                         United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Executive Board, Paris


19-21 April                         Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, San Jose, Costa Rica


19-30 April                         Commission on Sustainable Development, twelfth session, New York


20-29 April                         United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, twenty-second session, New York


21-22 April                         International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Executive Board, Rome


22-28 April                         Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), sixtieth session, Shanghai



26 April                            Economic and Social Council, special high-level meeting with the Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade Organization, New York


26-30 April                         Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, New York


26-30 April                         Committee against Torture, pre-sessional working group, Geneva


26-30 April                         United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, fifty-second session, Vienna


26 April-7 May                      Preparatory Committee for the 2005 Review Conference of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, third session, New York


26 April-7 May                      Committee on Information, twenty-sixth session, New York


26 April-14 May                     Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, thirty-second session, Geneva


27-29 April                         United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Board of Trustees, forty-second session, Geneva


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