ORG/1368

                                                            29 November 2002

 
 

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN DECEMBER 2002
   
  The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in December, 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

 

November/December                   United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),

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

 

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

 

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

 

Meetings beginning in December:

 

December                            Disarmament Commission, organizational

(2 days)                            session, New York

 

December                            Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1 meeting), Geneva

 

December                            Security Council, Governing Council of the

(3 days)                            United Nations Compensation Commission, established pursuant to Security Council resolution 692 (1991), forty-sixth session, Geneva

 

2-6 December                        Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, pre-sessional working group, Geneva
 

2-6 December                        Subcommittee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Geneva

 

2-13 December                       Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on a draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, Geneva

 

3 December                          United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Committee of Permanent Representatives, eighty-first meeting, Nairobi

 

4 December                          Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

                                    (1 meeting), New York

 

5 December                          Committee of Permanent Representatives to UN-Habitat, Nairobi

 

9-11 December                       Subcommittee of Experts on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, Geneva

 

9-13 December                       United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Insolvency Law, twenty-sixth session, Vienna

 

11-13 December                      Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, Geneva

 

12-13 December                      Meeting of States Parties and Annual Conference of the States Parties to Amended Protocol II of the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed of Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, Geneva

 

16-20 December                      United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Security Interests, second session, Vienna

                                                           

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