ORG/1364

                                                                  1 November 2002

   
 
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN NOVEMBER 2002
   
 

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

 

3 September-20 December             Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

 

10 September-December               General Assembly, fifty-seventh session,

                                    New York

 

14 October-1 November               Human Rights Committee, seventy-sixth session, Geneva

 

23 October-1 November               United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Conference of the Parties to the Convention, eighth session, and meetings of subsidiary bodies, New Delhi

 

28 October-2 November               Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Council, Rome

 

28 October-29 November              United Nations Administrative Tribunal,

                                    New York

 

30 October-15 November              International Narcotics Control Board, seventy-fifth session, Vienna

 

Meetings beginning in November:

 

November                            Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on

(8 days)                            Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, sixty-eighth session, Geneva

 

November/December                   United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),

(3 days)                            Inter-Agency Consultative Meeting, New York

 

2-8 November                        Universal Postal Union (UPU), Council of Administration, Berne

 

 

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4-8 November                        Committee against Torture, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

 

5 November                          United Nations Pledging Conference for

(1 day)                             Development Activities, New York

 

6 November                          United Nations/Food and Agriculture

(1 day)                             Organization (FAO) World Food Programme Pledging Conference, New York

 

6-8 November                        United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting of the Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues, Geneva

 

7-22 November                       International Labour Organization (ILO), Governing Body and its committees,

                                    285th session, Geneva

 

8 November                          United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, second regular session,

                                    New York

 

11-14 November                      Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights, Board of Trustees, Geneva

 

11-15 November                      Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group A and informal expert meetings, Vienna

 

11-22 November                      Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Structural Adjustment, Geneva

 

11-22 November                      Committee against Torture, twenty-ninth session, Geneva

 

11-22 November                      United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Committee for the review of the implementation of the Convention to Combat Desertification, Rome (Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters)

 

11-29 November                      Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, twenty-ninth session, Geneva

 

12-15 November                      Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads of national drug law enforcement agencies, Asia and the Pacific region, Bangkok

 

 

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12 November-6 December              International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, Montreal

 

13-15 November                      United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting of the Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities, Geneva

 

19-21 November                      United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Industrial Development Board, twenty-sixth session, Vienna

 

25-26 November                      Investments Committee, New York

 

25-27 November                      United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting of the Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development, Geneva

 

25-27 November                      International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Technical Assistance and Cooperation Committee, Vienna

 

25-29 November                      Commission on Human Rights, Working Group of Independent Experts on People of African Descent, Geneva

 

25-29 November                      International Maritime Organization (IMO), Council, London

 

25 November–4 December              Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, thirty-fifth session, Geneva

 

28-29 November                      International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna

 

29 November                         Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Special Meeting in Observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

                                    New York

 

 

 

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