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ORG/1413

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN JUNE 2004

28/05/2004
Press Release
ORG/1413


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN JUNE 2004


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


Meetings continued from previous month:


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


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


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


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


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


30 May-1 June                       Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), Brindisi


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


31 May-4 June                       World Food Programme (WFP), Executive Board, second regular session, Rome


Meetings beginning in June:


June                                Committee of Permanent Representatives to UN-Habitat, Nairobi


June/July                           Committee of Permanent Representatives to

(1 day)                             United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi


June/July                           Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, (6-8 meetings per week, up to 30 meetings), New York


1 June                              Committee for Programme and Coordination, organizational session, New York


1-17 June                           International Labour Organization (ILO), General Conference, Geneva


2-3 June                            ACABQ, Sierra Leone


2-11 June                           Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, forty-seventh session, Vienna


7 June                              United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Working Party on the medium-term plan and the programme budget, forty-second session, Geneva


7-9 June                            ACABQ, Bangkok


7 June-25 June                      Committee on Contributions, sixty-fourth session, New York


7 June-2 July                       Committee for Programme and Coordination, forty-fourth session, first part, New York


7-10 June                           United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board, Committee of Actuaries, New York


7-11 June                           United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Executive Board, annual session, New York


7-11 June                           Committee on the Rights of the Child, pre-sessional working group, Geneva


7-11 June                           Open-ended informal Consultative Process on Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, New York


7-11 June                           Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group A and informal/expert meetings, Vienna

8-11 June                           Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights, Board of Trustees, Geneva


8-18 June                           World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Executive Council, Geneva


9-18 June                           International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Council, Geneva


14-18 June                          ACABQ, Geneva


14-18 June                          International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna


14-18 June                          Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, New York


14-18 June                          UNCTAD, eleventh session, Sao Paulo


14-25 June                          Open-ended working group on an International Instrument to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons, first session, New York


14-25 June                          United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Executive Board, annual session, Geneva


14-25 June                          United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), thirty-seventh session, New York


16-25 June                          United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, meetings of subsidiary bodies of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, Bonn


18 June                             ILO, Governing Body and its committees, Geneva


21-25 June                          International Maritime Organization (IMO), Council, London


21-25 June                          Meeting of persons chairing human rights treaty bodies, Geneva


21 June-23 July                     United Nations Administrative Tribunal, Geneva


22-23 June                          Commission on Human Rights, Meeting of Independent Eminent Experts to follow the Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, Geneva


22-25 June                          Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, twenty-second session, Vienna


28-29 June                          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, Geneva


28-29 June                          UNCTAD, Working Party on the medium-term plan and the programme budget, Geneva


28 June-2 July                      Ad Hoc Committee established by General Assembly resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996, New York


28 June-2 July                      Commission on Human Rights, Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Working Group on Contemporary Slavery, Geneva


28 June-2 July                      Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), thirtieth session, Puerto Rico


28 June-9 July                      Conference of the States Parties to the Convention against Transnational Organized Crimes and its Protocols, first session, Vienna


28 June-14 July                     United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture, Board of Trustees, twenty-third session, Geneva


28 June-23 July                     Economic and Social Council, substantive session, New York


29-30 June                          United Nations African Meeting in support of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Cape Town


29 June-1 July                      Security Council, Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolution 692 (1991), Geneva


29 June-2 July                      Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague


30 June-2 July                      Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, Geneva


30 June-2 July                      Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Working Group on Communications under the Optional Protocol to the Convention, New York


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