TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN January 2005

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

Meetings beginning in January:

January (1 day)	Extraordinary meeting of Permanent Representatives to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi
January/February (1 meeting)	United Nations Staff Pension Committee, New York
January/February (3 days)	United Nations seminar on assistance to the Palestinian People, Place to be determined
5-18 January	Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, regular session, New York
10-14 January	United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Arbitration, New York
10-14 January	International Meeting for the ten-year Review of the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, Mauritius
10-20 January	Commission on Human Rights, open-ended working group to elaborate an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Geneva
10-28 January	Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, thirty-second session, New York
10-28 January	Committee on the Rights of the Child, thirty-eighth session, Geneva
10-28 January	International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Committee, Montreal
14 January, once every fortnight thereafter	Military Staff Committee, New York
17 January	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Programme and Budget Committee, Vienna
17-19 January	Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, workshop on free, prior and informed consent, New York
17-19 January	United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Executive Board, first regular session, New York
17-25 January	World Health Organization (WHO), Executive Board, Geneva
18-22 January	Second World Conference on Disaster Reduction and its preparatory committee, Kobe, Japan
19 January	Economic and Social Council, election of Bureau, New York
20, 24 January	Joint Meeting of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA, UNICEF and World Food Programme (WFP), New York
24-28 January	UNCITRAL, Working Group on Security Interests, New York
24 January-4 February	Ad Hoc Committee to elaborate a convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, New York
24 January-4 February	Open-ended Working Group on an International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons, second session, New York
24 January-1 April	Conference on Disarmament first part, Geneva
25-28 January	United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Executive Board, first regular session, New York
31 January-2 February	United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Working Party on the medium-term plan and the programme budget, forty-fourth session, first part, Geneva
31 January-4 February	Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, pre-sessional working group, New York
31 January-4 February	Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Working Group on Communications under the Optional Protocol to the Convention, New York
31 January-4 February	Committee on the Rights of the Child, pre-sessional working group, Geneva
31 January-4 February	International Narcotics Control Board, eighty-second session, Vienna
31 January-4 February	WFP, Executive Board, first regular session, Rome
31 January-11 February	Commission on Human Rights, intersessional open-ended working group mandated to elaborate a draft legally binding normative instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance, Geneva
31 January-25 February	Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and its Working Group, substantive session, New York

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