November

8-12

Working Party on the Transport of Dangerous Goods

9-11

Committee on Sustainable Energy

December

29- 3

Executive Body for the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (Gothenburg, Sweden)

January 2000

26-28

Working Party on Gas

February

15-17

Inland Transport Committee

March

22-24

Meeting on Parties to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (The Hague)

April

27-28

November

15-20

Ministerial Conference on Space Applications for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific (New Delhi)

22-25

Decade target fulfillment and equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities in the ESCAP regional

24-26

Committee on Transport, Communications, Tourism and Infrastructure Development, second session

December

1- 3

Committee on Socio-Economic Measures to Alleviate Poverty in Rural and Urban Areas (second session)

(open)

First subregional workshop on environment statistics

January 2000

(open)

Consultative Meeting on the Final

Review of Implementation of the

Programme of Action for the Least-Developed Countries for the 1990s

February

9-11

Seminar on "Framework for interregional cooperation in trade and investment: Asia- Latin America."

(open)

Seminar on expanding the economic benefits of tourism (Cheju, Republic of Korea)

March

(open)

Subregional workshop on trade facilitation and electronic commerce

April

(open)

Special Body on Pacific Island Developing Countries, sixth session

(open)

November

15-16

Twentieth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Council for Planning, ILPES (Montevideo, Uruguay)

15-17

Latin American and the Caribbean High-Level Expert Meeting on

Bio-Safety ECLAC/UNEP/UNDP

17-18

Expert meeting on open regionalism: evolution and outlook-comparing experiences between Latin America and the Caribbean and the Asia-Pacific region

December

1-3

First meeting of ECLAC and the regional networks of UNCTAD/ Training Development Programme

in the Field of Maritime Transport

January 2000

19-21

Regional Consultative Meeting on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Santiago, Chile,

February

8-10

VIII Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (Lima, Peru)

April

3-7

Twenty-eighth session of ECLAC, (Mexico City, Mexico D.F.)

May

(open)

November

13-14

Regional Meeting of African Ministers in Charge of Civil Aviation (Yamoussoukro, Cote d’Ivoire)

22-27

Sixth African Regional Conference on Women Mid-Term Review of the Implementation of the Dakar and

Beijing: Platforms for Action

December

(open)

Niger National Seminar on Women’s Rights

2000

(open)

Training workshop on micro-finance

(Malawi)

(open)

Seminar on harmonization of African countries’ commitments under the Treaty establishing the African Economic Community and multilateral trade agreements

(open)

November

16-18

Expert Group Meeting on the harmonization of Transport Norms and

Legislative Instruments for Regional Cooperation in the ESCWA Region, including UN/EDIFACT

20-21

Second Expert Group Meeting on Standardization in the Arab

Countries (Rabat)

23-24

Expert Group Meeting on Migration and Population Policies in the ESCWA member countries

29 Nov.-1 Dec.

Arab Conference on Assessing Progress Achieved in the Implementation of Plans/Programmes of Action of Global Conferences

29 Nov.-4 Dec.

Training Workshop on Industrial and Construction Statistics

January 2000

10-13

National Seminar on the facilitation of Maritime Traffic

April

(open)

Expert Group Meeting on appropriate technology for accessing population information in the ESCWA region

May

22-25