TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN OCTOBER 2003

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 United Nations Staff Pension Committee

(1 meeting), New York

2 September-19 December Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

15 September-3 October Committee on the Rights of the Child, thirty-fourth session, Geneva

16 September-December General Assembly, fifty-eighth session,

New York

22 September-1 October World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Assemblies of Member States, Geneva

29 September-1 October United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting, Geneva

29 September-3 October Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, Working Group A and informal/expert meeting, Vienna

29 September-3 October Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

29 September-10 October Commission on Human Rights, working group of experts on people of African descent, Geneva

29 September-17 October United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), General Conference, Paris

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Meetings beginning in October:

October United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Executive Board, Paris

6-10 October Committee on the Rights of the Child,

pre-sessional working group, Geneva

6-17 October United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Trade and Development Board, fiftieth session, Geneva

6-17 October United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Transport Law, twelfth session, Vienna

6-24 October International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Committee, Montreal

13-17 October Human Rights Committee, Working Group on Communications, Geneva

13-24 October Universal Postal Union, Council of Administration, Berne

16 October Advisory Committee on the United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law, thirty-eighth session,

New York

16 October World Food Day, Rome

17-24 October World Tourism Organization, General Assembly, Beijing

20-24 October Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, eighth session, The Hague

20-24 October World Food Programme (WFP), Executive Board, third regular session, Rome

20 October-7 November Human Rights Committee, seventy-ninth session, Geneva

20 October-21 November United Nations Administrative Tribunal,

New York

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22-24 October Preparatory process meetings for the eleventh session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva

28-30 October General Assembly, high-level dialogue on financing for development, New York

29 October-14 November International Narcotics Control Board, seventy-eighth session, Vienna

29-31 October United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting on foreign direct investment and development, Geneva

31 October-1 November United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, second regular session,

New York

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