TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN DECEMBER 2005

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:

6 September-23 December

Advisory Committee on Administrative and
Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), New York

13 September-December

General Assembly, sixtieth session, New York

November/December

International Civil Aviation Organization
(ICAO), Council, Montreal

21 November-2 December

International Maritime Organization
(IMO), Assembly, London

25 November-2 December

World Tourism Organization, General
Assembly, Dakar

28 November-2 December

Committee on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

28 November-2 December

United Nations Industrial Development
Organization (UNIDO), General Conference, eleventh session, Vienna

28 November-3 December

Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of
the International Criminal Court, The Hague

28 November-6 December

Panel of External Auditors of the United
Nations, the Specialized Agencies and the IAEA, New York

28 November-7 December

Subcommittee of Experts on the Transport
of Dangerous Goods, Geneva

28 November-9 December

United Nations Commission on
International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Transport Law, Vienna

28 November-9 December

United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC), Conference of the Parties to the Convention,
eleventh session, and meetings of subsidiary bodies, Montreal

Meetings beginning in December:

December (1 day)

Committee of Permanent Representatives to
the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), Nairobi

December (1 day)

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

December (1 day)

Disarmament Commission, organization
session New York

December (3 days)

Security Council, Governing Council of
the United Nations Compensation Commission established pursuant to Security
Council resolution 692 (1991), fiftieth session, Geneva

December (1 week)

United Nations University, Council,
fifty-second session, Tokyo

2 December

IMO, Council, London

5 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

5-9 December

Annual meeting of the States parties to
the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and
Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their
Destruction, Geneva

5-9 December

Committee of Experts on International
Cooperation in Tax Matters, Geneva

5-16 December

Commission on Human Rights, Working Group
on the draft United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Geneva

6-9 December

Organization for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons, Executive Council, The Hague

7 December

United Nations Board of Auditors, special
session, New York

7-9 December

Commission on Narcotic Drugs, resumed
forty-eighth session, Vienna

7-9 December

Subcommittee of Experts on the Globally
Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, Geneva

12-16 December

Committee on the Protection of the Rights
of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, Geneva

13-15 December

United Nations Latin American and Caribbean Meeting on the
Question of Palestine, Caracas

13-18 December

World Trade Organization, Ministerial
Conference, Hong Kong

14-15 December

International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD), Executive Board, Rome

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