TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN JANUARY 2005

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

Meetings beginning in January:

January (1 day)

Extraordinary meeting of Permanent
Representatives to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi

January/February (1 meeting)

United Nations Staff Pension Committee, New York

January/February (3 days)

United Nations seminar on assistance to
the Palestinian People, Place to be determined

5-18 January

Committee on Non-Governmental
Organizations, regular session, New York

10-14 January

United Nations Commission on
International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Arbitration, New York

10-14 January

International Meeting for the ten-year
Review of the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of
Small Island Developing States, Mauritius

10-20 January

Commission on Human Rights, open-ended
working group to elaborate an optional protocol to the International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Geneva

10-28 January

Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women, thirty-second session, New York

10-28 January

Committee on the Rights of the Child,
thirty-eighth session, Geneva

10-28 January

International Civil Aviation Organization
(ICAO), Committee, Montreal

14 January, once every fortnight
thereafter

Military Staff Committee, New York

17 January

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

17-19 January

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues,
workshop on free, prior and informed consent, New York

17-19 January

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF),
Executive Board, first regular session, New York

17-25 January

World Health Organization (WHO),
Executive Board, Geneva

18-22 January

Second World Conference on Disaster
Reduction and its preparatory committee, Kobe, Japan

19 January

Economic and Social Council, election of
Bureau, New York

20, 24 January

Joint Meeting of the Executive Boards of
UNDP/UNFPA, UNICEF and World Food Programme (WFP), New York

24-28 January

UNCITRAL, Working Group on Security
Interests, New York

24 January-4 February

Ad Hoc Committee to elaborate a
convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, New York

24 January-4 February

Open-ended Working Group on an
International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely
and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons, second session, New
York

24 January-1 April

Conference on Disarmament first part, Geneva

25-28 January

United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Executive Board, first
regular session, New York

31 January-2 February

United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD), Working Party on the medium-term plan and the programme
budget, forty-fourth session, first part, Geneva

31 January-4 February

Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women, pre-sessional working group, New York

31 January-4 February

Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women, Working Group on Communications under the
Optional Protocol to the Convention, New York

31 January-4 February

Committee on the Rights of the Child,
pre-sessional working group, Geneva

31 January-4 February

International Narcotics Control Board,
eighty-second session, Vienna

31 January-4 February

WFP, Executive Board, first regular
session, Rome

31 January-11 February

Commission on Human Rights,
intersessional open-ended working group mandated to elaborate a draft legally
binding normative instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced
disappearance, Geneva

31 January-25 February

Special Committee on Peacekeeping
Operations and its Working Group, substantive session, New York

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