TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN FEBRUARY 2005 The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in February, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:
Meetings continued from previous month:
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
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
World Food Programme (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
Meetings beginning in February:
February (1 day)
Committee of Permanent Representatives to
UN-Habitat, Nairobi
February
United Nations Staff Pension Committee (1
meeting), New York
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
1-4 February
Economic and Social Council,
organizational session, New
York
1 February-22 April
Advisory Committee on Administrative and
Budgetary Questions, New
York
7 February
Investments Committee, New York
7-11 February
Commission on Human Rights, Working Group
on Situations, Geneva
7-11 February
Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of
heads of national drug law enforcement agencies, European region, Vienna
9-18 February
Commission for Social Development,
forty-third session, New
York
14-18 February
Commission on Human Rights, Working Group
on the Rights to Development, Geneva
14 February-4 March
Preparatory Commission for the
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group B and
informal/expert meetings, Vienna
14 February-11 March
International Civil Aviation Organization
(ICAO), Council, Montreal
16-17 February
International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD), Governing Council, Rome
21-25 February
United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP), Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum, twenty-third session,
Nairobi
21 February-4 March
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer
Space, Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, forty-third session, Vienna
21 February-11 March
Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination, sixty-sixth session, Geneva
22-25 February
United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD), Commission on Enterprise,
Business Facilitation and Development, Geneva
22-25 February
Economic Commission for Europe (ECE),
sixtieth session, Geneva
23 February
Tenth meeting of the States Parties to
the Convention on the Rights of the Child, New York
23-25 February
Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, New York
28 February-3 March
International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna
28 February-4 March
Intergovernmental preparatory meeting for
the thirteenth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, New York
28 February-4 March
United Nations Voluntary Fund for
Indigenous Populations, Board of Trustees, Geneva
28 February-11 March
Commission on the Status of Women,
forty-ninth session, New
York
28 February-11 March
International Civil Service Commission
(ICSC), sixtieth session, Bangkok
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