TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN FEBRUARY 2006

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:

16 January-3 February	Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, thirty-fourth session, New York
16 January-3 February	Ad Hoc Committee to elaborate a convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, New York
16 January-3 February	International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Committee, Montreal
23 January-31 March	Conference on Disarmament, first part, Geneva
30 January-3 February	Committee on the Rights of the Child, pre-sessional working group, Geneva
30 January-3 February	United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Security Interests, New York
30 January-3 February	United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Board of Trustees, Geneva
30 January-3 February	International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), eighty-fifth session, Vienna
30 January-3 February	Panel of Governmental Experts on Verification in All Its Aspects, first session, New York

Meetings beginning in February

February	United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Committee on Permanent Representatives, Nairobi
2 February	Open-ended Working Group for the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament, organizational session, New York
6-10 February	Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Situations, Geneva
6-10 February	Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, pre-sessional working group, New York
6-10 February	United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities, Geneva
6-17 February	Commission on Human Rights, open-ended working group to elaborate an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural rights, Geneva
7-9 February	UNEP, Global Ministerial Environment Forum, ninth special session, Dubai
7-10 February	Economic and Social Council, organizational session, New York
8-10 February	Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, New York
8-17 February	Commission for Social Development, forty-fourth session, New York
13 February	Investments Committee, New York
13-17 February	Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on the use of mercenaries, Geneva
13-17 February	United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, Board of Trustees, Geneva
13-24 February	United Nations Forum on Forests, New York
13 February-3 March	Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group B and informal/expert meetings, Vienna
14-15 February	International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Governing Council, Rome
14 February-28 April	Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), New York
20-24 February	Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), sixty-first session, Geneva
20 February-3 March	Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, forty-third session, Vienna
20 February-10 March	Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, sixty-eighth session, Geneva
20 February-17 March	ICAO, Council, Montreal
20 February-17 March	Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and its Working Group, substantive session, New York
21-24 February	UNCTAD, Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development, Geneva
27 February-3 March	Ad Hoc Committee established by General Assembly resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996, New York
27 February-3 March	Group of Governmental Experts to the continuing operation and further development of the Register of Conventional Arms, New York
27 February-10 March	Commission on the Status of Women, fiftieth session, New York

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