TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN OCTOBER 2005

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:

September/October (1 meeting)	United Nations Staff Pension Committee, New York
September/October	World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Assemblies of Member States, Geneva
6 September-23 December	Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York
13 September-December	General Assembly, sixtieth session, New York
Meetings beginning in October:
October (2 days)	Advisory Committee on the United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law, fortieth session, New York
October (1 day)	Committee of Permanent Representatives to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi
October (1 day)	Extraordinary meeting of Permanent Representatives to UNEP, Nairobi
October	Universal Postal Union (UPU), Council of Administration, Berne
3 October	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna
3-7 October	Committee on the Rights of the Child, pre-sessional working group, Geneva
3-7 October	Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Executive Committee, fifty-sixth session, Geneva
3-7 October	Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group A and informal/expert meeting, Vienna
3-7 October	United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Arbitration, Vienna
3-14 October	United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Trade and Development Board, fifty-second session, Geneva
3-21 October	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), General Conference, Paris
10-14 October	Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries, Geneva
10-14 October	Human Rights Committee, Pre-sessional Working Group on Communications, Geneva
10-14 October	Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Budget and Finance Committee, The Hague
10-21 October	Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and Its Protocols, second session, Vienna
17-28 October	United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Conference of the Parties to the Convention, seventh session, and meetings of subsidiary bodies, Nairobi
17 October-3 November	Human Rights Committee, eighty-fifth session, Geneva
18-21 October	Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads of national drug law enforcement agencies, Latin America and the Caribbean region, Santa Marta , Colombia
28-29 October	United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, second regular session, New York

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