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

Meetings continued from previous month:
 

September/October (1 meeting)	United Nations Staff Pension Committee, New York
4 September-21 December	Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York
11 September-December	General Assembly, fifty-sixth session, New York
24 September-3 October	World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Assemblies of Member States, Geneva
24 September-5 October	Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court, New York
24 September-12 October	Committee on the Rights of the Child, twenty-eighth session, Geneva
25 September-5 October	International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Assembly, thirty-third session, Montreal

Meetings beginning in October:
 

October (2 days)	Advisory Committee on the United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law, thirty-sixth session, New York
October	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Executive Board, one hundred and sixty-second session, Paris
October/November (5 weeks)	United Nations Administrative Tribunal, New York
1-5 October	United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Executive Committee, fifty-second session, Geneva
1-12 October	Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, fifth session, and meetings of subsidiary bodies, Geneva
1-12 October	United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Trade and Development Board, forty-eighth session, Geneva
2-4 October	International Monetary Fund/World Bank, joint annual meetings of the Boards of Governors, Washington, D.C.
2-5 October	Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads of national drug law enforcement agencies, Latin America and the Caribbean region, Panama City
8-12 October	Human Rights Committee, Working Group on Communications, Geneva
5-19 October	Committee on the Rights of the Child, Pre-sessional Working Group, Geneva
8-11 October	Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group A, and informal/expert meeting, Vienna
15-18 October	Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads of national drug law enforcement agencies, Asia and the Pacific region, Sydney
15-19 October	Preparatory Committee for the international conference on financing for development, resumed third substantive session, New York
15 October-2 November	Human Rights Committee, seventy-third session, Geneva
15 October-2 November	International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Committee, one hundred and sixty-fourth session, Montreal
16 October	Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Day, Rome
17-19 October	United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting on consumer interests, competitiveness, competition and development, Geneva
18-26 October	Universal Postal Union (UPU), Council of Administration, Berne
19-20 October	Administrative Committee on Coordination, second regular session, New York
22-24 October	United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), expert meeting on improving the competitiveness of SMEs in developing countries, Geneva
22-26 October	Executive Board of World Food Programme (WFP), third regular session, Rome
22 October-10 November	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), General Conference, thirty-first session, Paris
29 October-9 November	United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Conference of the Parties to the Convention, seventh session, and meetings of subsidiary bodies, Marrakesh
29 October-15 November	International Narcotics Control Board, seventy-second session, Vienna
30 October-1 November	Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Council, one hundred and twenty-first session, Rome