TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN DECEMBER 2004

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

Meetings continued from previous month:

7 September-24 December             Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

14 September-December               General Assembly, fifty-ninth session, New York

27 November-17 December             International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, Montreal

29 November-3 December              Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

29 November-3 December              Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, ninth session, The Hague

29 November-3 December              Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads of national drug law enforcement agencies, Asia and the Pacific region, Bangkok

29 November-3 December              First Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, Nairobi

29 November-3 December              Working Group on a draft declaration on the rights of indigenous people, Geneva

29 November-7 December              Subcommittee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Geneva

29 November-10 December             United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Transport Law, fourteenth session, Vienna

Meetings beginning in December:

December                            Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1 meeting), Geneva

December                            Committee of Permanent Representatives to UN-Habitat, Nairobi

December                            Committee of Permanent Representatives to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi

1-2 December                        International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Executive Board, Rome

6 December                          Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly for the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), New York

6-10 December                       United Nations University (UNU), Council, fifty-first session (1 week), Helsinki

6-17 December                       United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Conference of the Parties to the Convention, tenth session, and meetings of subsidiary bodies, Buenos Aires

7-9 December                        Security Council, Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolution 692 (1991), Geneva

7-9 December                        Subcommittee of Experts on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, Geneva

7-14 December                       Panel of External Auditors of the United Nations, the Specialized Agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency, Paris (UNESCO Headquarters)

8-10 December                       United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting of the Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development, Geneva

10 December                         Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, Geneva

14-17 December                      Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague

15 December                         United Nations Board of Auditors, special session, Paris (UNESCO Headquarters)

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