TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MAY 2005

 

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:

25 April-13 May                     Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, thirty-fourth session, Geneva

Meetings beginning in May:

May                                 United Nations Latin American and Caribbean

(3 days)                            Meeting on the Question of Palestine, place to be determined

2-6 May                             International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Programme and Budget Committee, Vienna

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

2-11 May                            United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Committee for the Review of the Convention, Bonn

2-13 May                            International Narcotics Control Board, eighty-third session, Vienna

2-20 May                            Committee against Torture, thirty-fourth session, Geneva

2-27 May                            2005 Review Conference of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, second session, New York

2-27 May                            General Assembly, Fifth Committee, resumed session, New York

3 May                               International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), Executive Board, New York

9 May                               Investments Committee, New York

9-12 May                            Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), twenty-third session, Damascus

9-20 May                            Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, resumed session, New York

10-12 May                           United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Programme and Budget Committee, twenty-first session, Vienna

11 May                              Committee for Programme and Coordination, organizational session, New York

11-13 May                           Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Committee of Experts of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, twenty-fourth meeting, Abuja, Nigeria

11-13 May                           Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, pre-sessional meeting, New York

12-18 May                           Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), sixty-first session, Bangkok

14-15 May                           Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, thirty-eighth session of the Commission, Abuja, Nigeria

16-20 May                           Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

16-25 May                           World Health Organization (WHO), World Health Assembly, fifty-eighth session, Geneva

16-27 May                           Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, New York

16-27 May                           United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), meetings of subsidiary bodies of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, Bonn

16-27 May                           United Nations Forum on Forest, fifth session, New York

16 May-3 June                       Committee on the Rights of the Child, thirty-ninth session, Geneva

17-19 May                           Regional seminar to review the situation in Non-Self Governing Territories under the     Second Decade on the Eradication of Colonialism, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

17 May-15 July                      Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

23-27 May                           Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Geneva

23-27 May                           Commission on Science and Technology for Development, eighth session, Geneva

23-27 May                           Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, fourteenth session, Vienna

23 May-3 June                       Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group B and informal/expert meetings, Vienna

24 May-17 June                      International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, Montreal

26 May-3 June                       Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, Geneva

30-31 May                           United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Working Party on the medium-term plan and the programme budget, forty-fourth session, second part, Geneva

30 May-3 June                       Commission on Human Rights, Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Working Group on Minorities, Geneva

30 May-3 June                       United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, fifty-third session, Vienna

30 May-15 July                      Conference on Disarmament, second part, Geneva

31 May-3 June                       High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation, fourteenth session, New York

31 May-9 June                       International Labour Organization (ILO), General Conference, Geneva

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