TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MAY 2004

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

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

Meetings beginning in May

May                                 Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Committee of Experts of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Addis Ababa

May/June                            ECA, Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, thirty-sixth session of the Commission, Addis Ababa

3-14 May                            United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Transport Law, New York

3-14 May                            United Nations Forum on Forests, fourth session, Geneva

3-21 May                            Committee against Torture, thirty-second session, Geneva

3-28 May                            General Assembly, Fifth Committee, resumed session, New York

3 May-4 June                        International Law Commission, fifty-sixth session (also 5 July-6 August), Geneva

4-5 May                             Economic and Social Council, resumed organizational session, New York

4-7 May                             International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Programme and Budget Committee, Vienna

4 May-25 June                       Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), New York

6-7 May                             Preparatory Committee for the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, Geneva

10 May                              Investments Committee, New York

10-11 May                           United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Trade and Development Board, twenty-first special session, Geneva

10-21 May                           Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, New York

10-27 May                           United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture, Board of Trustees, twenty-third session, Geneva

10-28 May                           Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, New York

10 May-25 June                      Conference on Disarmament, second part, Geneva

11-20 May                           Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, parallel meetings for informal consultations and working groups (12 meetings), Vienna

11-20 May                           Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, thirteenth session, Vienna

17-21 May                           Panel of governmental experts on missiles, second session, New York

17-21 May                           Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

17-22 May                           World Health Organization (WHO), World Health Assembly, fifty-seventh session, Geneva

17 May-4 June                       Committee on the Rights of the Child, thirty-sixth session, Geneva

17-28 May                           International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), eightieth session, Vienna

18-20 May                           Regional seminar to review the situation in Non-Self-Governing Territories under the Second Decade on the Eradication of Colonialism, Madang, Papua New Guinea

24-28 May                           Group of government experts on the relationship between disarmament and development, third session, New York

24-28 May                           Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Geneva

24-28 May                           Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, seventy-second session, Geneva

24-28 May                           Commission on Science and Technology for Development, seventh session, Geneva

24-28 May                           World Food Programme (WFP), Executive Board, annual session, Rome

24 May-4 June                       Ad Hoc Committee to elaborate a convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, New York

24 May-4 June                       Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group B and informal/expert meetings, Vienna

24 May-4 June                       International Seabed Authority, Assembly, tenth session, Kingston

25-27 May                           United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Industrial Development Board, Vienna

25 May-25 June                      International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, Montreal

30 May-3 June                       Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads of national drug enforcement agencies, African region, Cairo

31 May-4 June                       WFP, Executive Board, second regular session, Rome

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