ORG/1382
                                                    1 May 2003

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MAY 2003

 

   
  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:

 14 April-2 May                      International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Committee, Montreal

 28 April-2 May                      Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, New York

 28 April-9 May                      Commission on Sustainable Development, eleventh session, New York

 28 April-9 May                      Committee on Information, twenty-fifth session, New York

 28 April-9 May                      Preparatory Committee for the 2005 Review Conference of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, second session, Geneva

 28 April-9 May                      Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, First Review Conference of the Chemical Weapons Convention, The Hague

 28 April-16 May                     Committee against Torture, thirtieth session, Geneva

 29 April-1 May                      United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Board of Trustees,
forty-first session,
Geneva

 Meetings beginning in May:

 May                                 Committee for Programme and Coordination, organizational session (1 day), New York

 5-8 May                             International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Programme and Budget Committee, Vienna

5-9 May                             United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Electronic Commerce, forty-first session,
New York

 5-9 May                             Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, thirty-sixth session, Geneva

 5-9 May                             Commission on Science and Technology for Development, sixth session, Geneva

 5-9 May                             Governing Council of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, nineteenth session, Nairobi

 5-16 May                            International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Council, Geneva

 5-23 May                            Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, New York

 5-23 May                            Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, thirtieth session, Geneva

 5-24 May                            World Meteorological Congress, Geneva

 5-30 May                            General Assembly, Fifth Committee, resumed session, New York

 5 May-6 June                        International Law Commission, fifty-fifth session (also 7 July-8 August), Geneva

 6 May-18 July                       Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

 12-13 May                           Investments Committee, New York

 12-16 May                           United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Arbitration, thirty-eighth session, New York

 12-16 May                           Commission on Human Rights, Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Working Group on Minorities, Geneva

 12-16 May                           Preparatory process meetings for the eleventh session of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva

 12-23 May                           Group of Governmental Experts on the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms,
New York

 12-23 May                           Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, New York

 12-28 May                           United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture, Board of Trustees, twenty-second session, Geneva

 12 May-27 June                      Conference on Disarmament, second part, Geneva

 13-14 May                           United Nations International meeting in support of Middle East peace on the question of Palestine, Kyiv

 13-22 May                           Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, parallel meetings for informal consultations and working groups
(12 meetings),
Vienna

 13-22 May                           Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, twelfth session, Vienna

 15 May                              United Nations Non-Governmental Organization event in support of Palestinian people, Kyiv

 19-28 May                           World Health Organization (WHO), World Health Assembly, fifty-sixth session, Geneva

 19 May-6 June                       Committee on the Rights of the Child,
thirty-third session,
Geneva

 20-22 May                           Regional seminar to review the situation in Non-Self-Governing Territories under the Second Decade on the Eradication of Colonialism, Anguilla 

20 May-13 June                      International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, Montreal

 21-23 May                           United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Working Party on the medium-term plan and the programme budget, fortieth session, second part, Geneva

 26-28 May                           World Meteorological Organization, Executive Council, Geneva

 26-30 May                           Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

 26-30 May                           World Food Programme (WFP), Executive Board, annual session, Rome

 26 May-6 June                       United Nations Forum on Forests, Geneva

26 May-6 June                       International Narcotics Control Board, seventy-seventh session, Vienna

 26 May-6 June                       Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group B and informal/expert meetings, Vienna

 27-30 May                           High-level Committee on the Review of Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries, thirteenth session, New York

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