TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN FEBRUARY 2006

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:

16 January-3 February

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

16 January-3 February

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

16 January-3 February

International Civil Aviation Organization
(ICAO) Committee, Montreal

23 January-31 March

Conference on Disarmament, first part, Geneva

30 January-3 February

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

30 January-3 February

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

30 January-3 February

United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on
Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Board of Trustees, Geneva

30 January-3 February

International Narcotics Control Board
(INCB), eighty-fifth session, Vienna

30 January-3 February

Panel of Governmental Experts on
Verification in All Its Aspects, first session, New York

Meetings beginning in February

February

United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP), Committee on Permanent Representatives, Nairobi

2 February

Open-ended Working Group for the fourth
special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament, organizational
session, New York

6-10 February

Commission on Human Rights, Working Group
on Situations, Geneva

6-10 February

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

6-10 February

United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD), Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and
Commodities, Geneva

6-17 February

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

7-9 February

UNEP, Global Ministerial Environment
Forum, ninth special session, Dubai

7-10 February

Economic and Social Council,
organizational session, New
York

8-10 February

Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, New York

8-17 February

Commission for Social Development,
forty-fourth session, New
York

13 February

Investments Committee, New York

13-17 February

Commission on Human Rights, Working Group
on the use of mercenaries, Geneva

13-17 February

United Nations Voluntary Fund for
Indigenous Populations, Board of Trustees, Geneva

13-24 February

United Nations Forum on Forests, New York

13 February-3 March

Preparatory Commission for the
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group B and
informal/expert meetings, Vienna

14-15 February

International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD), Governing Council, Rome

14 February-28 April

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

20-24 February

Economic Commission for Europe (ECE),
sixty-first session, Geneva

20 February-3 March

Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer
Space, Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, forty-third session, Vienna

20 February-10 March

Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination, sixty-eighth session, Geneva

20 February-17 March

ICAO, Council, Montreal

20 February-17 March

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

21-24 February

UNCTAD, Commission on Enterprise,
Business Facilitation and Development, Geneva

27 February-3 March

Ad Hoc Committee established by General
Assembly resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996, New York

27 February-3 March

Group of Governmental Experts to the
continuing operation and further development of the Register of Conventional
Arms, New York

27 February-10 March

Commission on the Status of Women,
fiftieth session, New York

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