TENTATIVE
SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN MARCH 2004
The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in March, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:
Meetings continued from previous month: 19 January-26 March Conference on Disarmament, first part, Geneva
February/March Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, New York
3 February-26 March Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), New York
16 February-12 March International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, Montreal
23 February-5 March Working Group on Reimbursement of Contingent-owned Equipment, New York
23 February-5 March Commission on Human Rights, open-ended working group to elaborate an optional protocol to the International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Geneva
23 February-12 March Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, sixty-fourth session, Geneva
Meetings beginning in March:
March United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Board of Trustees, forty-second session, first part (2-3 days), Geneva
March International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), Executive Board (1 week), Santo Domingo
March/April Committee for the United Nations Population Award (2 days), New York
March/April United Nations Staff Pension Committee (1 meeting), New York
1-3 March Africa Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Addis Ababa
1-5 March Ad Hoc Committee on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property, New York
1-5 March Commission on Human Rights, Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Working Group on Minorities, Geneva
1-5 March Committee on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, Geneva
1-12 March Commission on the Status of Women, forty-eighth session, New York
2-5 March Statistical Commission, thirty-fifth session, New York
8-11 March International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna
8-12 March Group of government experts on the relationship between disarmament and development, second session, New York
8-12 March Human Rights Committee, Working Group on Communications, New York
8-12 March Group of governmental experts of the States parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, seventh session, Geneva
8 March-2 April General Assembly, Fifth Committee, resumed session, New York
9-11 March Security Council, Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolution 692 (1991), Geneva
10-12 March United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Trade and Development Board, executive session, Geneva
11-19 March United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, Board of Trustees, Geneva
11-26 March International Labour Organization (ILO), Governing Body and its committees, Geneva
14-16 March Western Asia Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Beirut
15-16 March Consultative Committee on the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), forty-fourth session, New York
15-19 March United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Electronic Commerce, New York
15-22 March Commission on Narcotic Drugs, forty-seventh session, Vienna
15 March-2 April Human Rights Committee, eightieth session, New York
15 March-23 April Commission on Human Rights, sixtieth session, Geneva
16-25 March Committee of the Whole of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (4 days), Vienna
22-26 March Commission on Population and Development, thirty-seventh session, New York
22-26 March UNCITRAL, Working Group on Security Interests, New York
22-26 March Advisory Group of the United Nations Trust Fund for the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People, Geneva
23-26 March Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague
29-31 March Asia and Pacific Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Bangkok
29-31 March Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Budget and Finance Committee, The Hague
29-31 March United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum, eighth special session, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea
29-March-2 April Committee for Development Policy, sixth session, New York
29 March-2 April Committee of Experts on Public Administration, New York
29 March-2 April UNCITRAL, Working Group on Insolvency Law, New York
29 March-8 April Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization, New York
29 March-8 April Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Legal Subcommittee, forty-third session, Vienna
29 March-16 April International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), fifty-eighth session, Paris
29 March-23 April Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and its Working Group, substantive session, New York
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