CALENDAR OF MEETINGS OF THE REGIONAL COMMISSIONS

November 1996 - April 1997


ECE
November

4 - 6 Meeting of Experts on Coordination of Standardization of Fresh Fruit and Vegetables

4 - 6 Working Party on Coal

4 - 8 Working Party on the Transport of Dangerous Goods

6 - 8 Committee on Energy

7 - 8 Working Party on Standardization of Perishable Produce and Quality Development

11-13 Meeting of the Signatories to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context

12-15 Working Party on the Construction of Vehicles

13-15 Working Party on Transport Statistics

25-29 Executive Body for the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution

December

2 -11 Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods

10-12 Committee on the Development of Trade

16-18 Preparatory Committee of the Regional Conference on Transport and Environment

January 1997

13-16 Meeting of Experts on Pollution and Energy

13-17 Inland Transport Committee

14-15 The Significance of International Migration in Countries with Economies in Transition

20-22 Committee on Environmental Policy - Special Session

28-30 Working Party on Gas

ESCAP

November:

4 - 8 Seminar on technological options to issues related to river dam construction, Wuhan, China

6 Interagency Subcommittee on the Advancement of Women, second meeting, Bangkok

25-29 Committee on Statistics, tenth session, Bangkok

26-27 Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology, Technical Advisory Committee, Kathmandu

28-29 Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology, Governing Board, eleventh session, Katmandu

December:

11-13 Intergovernmental meeting on Tourism Development, Bangkok,

February 1997

Regional Preparatory Meeting, Bangkok.

4 - 6 Steering Group of the Committee for Regional Economic Cooperation, Chitose City, Japan

20-28 Second Joint session of the Typhoon Committee and the WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones, Phuket

March 1997:

17-19 Committee for Regional Economic Cooperation, sixth session, Bangkok

18-20 Shanghai symposium to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of ESCAP, Shanghai, funded by China and Japan, Ad Hoc Conference

April 1997

17-19 Special Body on Least Developed and Land-locked Developing Countries, third session, Bangkok

21-22 Special Body on Pacific Island Countries, fourth session, Bangkok

23-30 Fifty-third Commission Session, Bangkok

ECLAC

November

4 - 8 First meeting of agencies responsible for regulation and supervision of land transport services, Buenos Aires

10-11 Fifth Regional Meeting of Ministers and High-level Experts of the Housing and Urban Development Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago

18-19 Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on the "Integration of Women into Economic and Social Development," Port-of-Spain

January 1997

8 -10 IV Expert Group Meeting on Financial Issues of Agenda 21, Santiago

27-30 IX Regional ECLAC/UNDP Seminar on Fiscal Policy, Santiago

April 1997

6 - 9 Regional Meeting in Follow-up to the WSSD, Sao Paulo

ECA

November

4 - 8 Expert Group Meeting on Women Leaders on Peace and Development, Johannesburg

11-15 Ninth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Africa.

January 1997

Sixth session of the Conference of the African Ministers of Finance

February 1997

3 - 7 Meeting of the Bureau of the Conference of African Ministers of Industry.

March 1997

17-21 Second session of the Follow-up Committee on Dakar/NGO Declaration on Population, Family and Sustainable Development, and the ICPD Programme of Action

April 1997

14-18 Third Road Safety Congress, Pretoria

21-23 Eighteenth meeting of the African Regional Coordinating Committee for the Integration of Women in Development (ARCC), Tanzania

May 1997

1 - 8 Thirty-second session of the Commission's twenty-third meeting of the Conference of Ministers responsible for Economic and Social Development and Planning, and its Technical Preparatory Committee of the Whole(TEPCOW)

ESCWA

November

4 - 7 Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting on Border-Crossing Formalities and Agreements for the Transport of Goods and Passengers, Cairo

3-20 National Training Workshop on Food and Agriculture Policy Analysis, Amman

24-26 Expert Group Meeting on Water Legislation, Amman

Workshop on Statistics and the Geographic Information Systems

February 1997

18-20 First Meeting of the Social Development Committee

24-26 Second Session of the Statistical Committee

First Meeting of the Water Committee

March 1997

First Meeting of the Energy Committee

WWW SITES OF THE REGIONAL COMMISSIONS

ECE: http://www.unic.org/unece

ESCAP: For trade facilitation access the WWW site of the National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (NECTEC). The URL (Universal Resource Locator) address of TRAFIX is >ecie.th<

ECLAC: http://www.eclac.cl

ECA: It is expected to go international with its Home Page as soon as connectivity arrives (expected from the Ethiopian Telecommunications Authority, no later than the end of 1996.)


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