TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN FEBRUARY 2005

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

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
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	World Food Programme (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

Meetings beginning in February:

February (1 day)	Committee of Permanent Representatives to UN-Habitat, Nairobi
February	United Nations Staff Pension Committee (1 meeting), New York
February/March	Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, New York
1-4 February	Economic and Social Council, organizational session, New York
1 February-22 April	Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York
7 February	Investments Committee, New York
7-11 February	Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Situations, Geneva
7-11 February	Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads of national drug law enforcement agencies, European region, Vienna
9-18 February	Commission for Social Development, forty-third session, New York
14-18 February	Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on the Rights to Development, Geneva
14 February-4 March	Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group B and informal/expert meetings, Vienna
14 February-11 March	International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, Montreal
16-17 February	International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Governing Council, Rome
21-25 February	United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum, twenty-third session, Nairobi
21 February-4 March	Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, forty-third session, Vienna
21 February-11 March	Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, sixty-sixth session, Geneva
22-25 February	United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development, Geneva
22-25 February	Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), sixtieth session, Geneva
23 February	Tenth meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, New York
23-25 February	Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, New York
28 February-3 March	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna
28 February-4 March	Intergovernmental preparatory meeting for the thirteenth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, New York
28 February-4 March	United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, Board of Trustees, Geneva
28 February-11 March	Commission on the Status of Women, forty-ninth session, New York
28 February-11 March	International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), sixtieth session, Bangkok

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