TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN OCTOBER 2004

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

7 September-24 December             Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

13 September-1 October              Committee on the Rights of the Child, thirty-seventh session, Geneva

14 September-December               General Assembly, fifty-ninth session, New York

15 September-5 October              Universal Postal Union (UPU) Congress, Bucharest

27 September-1 October              United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Security Interests, Vienna

27 September-5 October              World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Assemblies of Member States, Geneva

28 September-14 October             United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Executive Board, Paris

Meetings beginning in October:

October                             Universal Postal Union (UPU), Council of Administration, Berne

October                             Committee of Permanent Representatives to

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

October                             Extraordinary Meeting of Permanent

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

October/November                    United Nations Staff Pension Committee (1 meeting), New York

4-5 October                         Annual meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, D.C.

4-8 October                         Committee on the Rights of the Child, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

4-8 October                         Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, Working Group A, Vienna

4-8 October                         Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Executive Committee, fifty-fifth session, Geneva

4-15 October                        United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Trade and Development Board, fifty-first session, Geneva

11-12 October                       Preparatory Committee for the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, Geneva

11-14 October                       World Food Programme (WFP), Executive Board, third regular session, Rome

11-15 October                       Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads of national drug law enforcement agencies, Latin America and the Caribbean region, Mexico City

11-15 October                       Human Rights Committee, pre-sessional working group on Communications, eighty-second session, Geneva

11-22 October                       United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Electronic Commerce, Vienna

12-15 October                       Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague

18 October-5 November               Human Rights Committee, eighty-second session, Geneva

18 October-5 November               International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Committee, Montreal

25 October-5 November               Commission on Human Rights, working group of experts on people of African descent, Geneva

25 October-24 November              United Nations Administrative Tribunal,

                                    New York

27-29 October                       UNCTAD, Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting, Geneva

27 October-11 November              International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), eighty-first session, Vienna

29-30 October                       United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, second regular session, New York

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