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|
| Dec. 31 | Panama Canal Hand Over
Ceremony |
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|
| Dec. 20 |
Sixth Session of the U.S.-Kazakhstan Joint
Commission, Washington. Vice President Gore and President Nazarbayev. |
| |
| Sept. 14-Dec 23 | United
Nations General Assembly, New York |
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| December
|
Dec. 31 |
Panama Canal Hand Over
Ceremony |
| January 2000
|
Jan. 3  | Israel-Syrian Peace Talks resume, Washington
|
Jan. 10-28  |
UN Committee on the Rights of the
Child, 23rd
Session, Geneva |
| Jan. 12-13 | U.S.-China Forum of Environment and Development, Hawaii
|
| Jan. 13-14 | Organization of American States (OAS)
Meeting of Labor Ministers, Santo Domingo |
| Jan. 20-21 | Biotechnology: the Science and
the Impact international conference, The
Hague. Sponsored by the Commerce Department's Foreign Commercial Service, The Hague.
|
| Jan. 24-28 | Resumed meeting of the Extraordinary Conference of the Parties to the
Convention on Biological Diversity to finalize and adopt a Protocol on Biosafety, Montreal
|
| Jan. 26-28 | Conference on Holocaust Education, Stockholm. Hosted by Prime Minister
Persson. Nobel Laureate Elie Weisel will serve as Chairman. |
| Jan. 27-Feb. 1 | World Economic Forum,
Davos
|
| February 2000
|
| Feb. 10 |
Caring Communities for the 21st Century:
Imagining the Possible, Conference, New York. Organized by the International Council
for Caring Communities. |
| Feb. 12-19 | UNCTAD X (Quadrennial Meeting),
Bangkok
|
| Feb. 12-21 | APEC (Asia Pacific Economic
Cooperation)
Senior Officials Meeting I, Bandar Seri Begawan
|
| Feb. 17-20 | National Summit on Africa,
Washington
|
| Feb 28.-Mar. 17 | Commission on the Status of Women, 44th Session, New York
|
| March 2000
|
| Mar. 8 |
International Women's
Day |
| Mar. 17-22 | Second World Water Forum and
Ministerial
Conference, The Hague |
| Mar. 20-24 |
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors Meeting, Vienna
|
| Mar. 20-Apr. 28 | 56th Annual Session of the UN
Commission on Human Rights,
Geneva |
| April 2000
|
| April |
PeaceWing
Project, Kenya. A month-long testing and demonstration of the PeaceWing aircraft which
collects and transmits data for disaster relief workers/organizations. |
| Apr. 1-17 |
Tenth UN Congress on Prevention of Crime and
the Treatment of Offenders,
Crime and
Justice: Meeting the Challenge of the Twenty-First Century, Vienna |
| Apr. 7 |
World Health Day |
| Apr. 10-13 | Ninth International
Congress of Infectious Diseases, Buenos Aires
|
| Apr. 10-20 | Eleventh meeting
of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora), Gigiri, Kenya
|
| Apr. 22 |
Earth Day
|
| Apr. 24-May 5 | Eighth Meeting of the UN
Commission on Sustainable Development, New York
|
| Apr. 24-May 19 | 2000 Non-Proliferation Review Conference (NPT), New York
|
| Apr. 26-28 | Arctic Council: Senior Arctic
Officials Meeting,
Fairbanks |
| May 2000
|
| May 1-5 |
First Preparatory Meeting for the World
Conference Against Racism, Geneva. -- The World Conference Against Racism, Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance will be held in the Year 2001 (venue to be
decided).
|
| May 3 |
World Press Freedom
Day
|
| May 15-19 |
Fifth Conference of the States Parties of the
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague |
| May 15-20 | 53rd World Health Assembly, Geneva
|
| May 15-26 |
Fifth Conference of the Parties to the
Convention on Biological Diversity, Nairobi
|
| May 15-June 2 |
UN Committee on Rights of the Child,
24th Session, Geneva |
| May 22-26 |
APEC
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Telecommunications Ministerial, Cancun |
| May 22-26 |
The Millennium Forum, New York.
Sponsored by the United Nations. |
| June 2000
|
| June 1-Oct. 31 |
Expo
2000, Hannover |
| June 3-11 | APEC (Asia Pacific Economic
Cooperation)
Senior Officials Meeting II, Bandar Seri Begawan |
| June 5 |
World Environment
Day
|
| June 5-9 |
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors Meeting, Vienna
|
| June 5-9 |
UNGA Special Session
on Women's Issues
(Beijing + 5), New York |
| June 18-21 | International Conference on
Emerging Democracies, Citizenship and Human Rights Education, Enschede, The
Netherlands. Organized by the Dutch National Institute for Curriculum Development with the
Consortium of Institutions for Development and Research in Education in Europe.
|
| June 22-24 | Neuroscience of HIV Infection: Basic
Research and Clinical
Frontiers Conference, Edinburgh |
| June 26 |
International Day Against
Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
|
| June 26-27 |
Conference on the
Community of Democracies,
Warsaw
|
| June 26-30 | UNGA Special Session on
Implementation of the
Outcome of the World Summit for Social Development (Copenhagen +5), Geneva |
| June 28-July 1 | Sister Cities International Annual
Conference, Denver
|
| June 28-July 1 |
Forum 2000, Building Democratic
Villages, Alberta. Sponsored by The National Council for
the Social Studies (NCSS).
|
| July 2000
|
| July 9-14 | 13th International AIDS Conference, Durban
|
| July 11 |
World Population Day
|
| July 16-19 | International Conference on Emerging
Infectious Diseases 2000, Atlanta. Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and
prevention along with other agencies and organizations. |
| July 18-21 | INET 2000, Tenth Annual Internet Society
Conference, Yokohama |
| July 21-23 | G-8 Summit, Okinawa |
| July 24-25 | 33rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Ministerial Conference, Bangkok |
| July 26-29 | Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum and Post Ministerial Conference,
Bangkok
|
| August 2000
|
| Aug. 28-29 |
Millennium Summit of Religious Leaders, New
York. Sponsored by the United Nations. |
| September 2000 |
| Sept. 3-10 |
State of the World Forum, New York. Sponsored
by the United Nations.
|
| Sept. 5 |
Opening of The Millennium Assembly of the
United Nations, New York
|
| Sept. 6 |
The Millennium Summit of the United
Nations, New York
|
| Sept. 18-22 | International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
General Conference, Vienna |
| Sept. 18-Oct. 6 | UN Committee on Rights of the Child,
25th Session, Geneva
|
| Sept. 21-22 | APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation) Trade Ministerial, Bandar Seri Begawan |
| Sept. 24-28 | 55th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the World Bank and
International Monetary Fund (IMF), Prague |
| October 2000
|
| Oct. TBD |
Publication of the State of the World Population
Report
|
| Oct. 4-12 |
World Conservation Congress, Amman
|
| Oct. 6-13 |
3rd International Conference on Women in Africa
and the African Diaspora (WAAD III) Facing the New Millennium:
Gender in Africa and the African Diaspora--Retrospection and Prospects, Antananarivo
|
| November 2000
|
| Nov. 12-13 | APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation) 12th Ministerial Meeting, Bandar Seri Begawan |
| Nov. 15-16 | APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation) 8th Economic Leaders Meeting, Bandar Seri Begawan |
| December 2000 |
| Dec. |
Conference of New and Emerging
Democracies, Cotonou, Benin |
| Dec. 5-6 |
NATO Defense Ministerial Meeting,
Brussels |
| Dec. 14-15 | NATO Foreign Ministerial Meeting, Brussels |
|
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December 17, 1999