1997/233. Provisional agenda and documentation for the forty-fir session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs

1. Election of officers.

2. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.

3. Policy issues for action by the United Nations Internationa Drug Control Programme.

Report of the Executive Director on the activities of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme.

4. Implementation of the international drug control treaties: (a) International Narcotics Control Board.

Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 1997.

(c) Other matters arising from the international drug control treaties.

Documentation.

5. Monitoring of the United Nations System-Wide Action Plan on Drug Abuse Control and other coordination matters.

6. Administrative and budgetary matters.

7. Provisional agenda for the forty-second session of the Commission and future work.

Documentation.

Note by the Secretariat.

8. Other matters.

9. Adoption of the report of the Commission on its forty-first session.

EXHIBIT 36 REGULATIONS

Regulations for the general classification of the various categories of meetings convened by Unesco

Adopted by the General Conference at its fourteenth session and amended at its eighteenth session.

General

Article 1 Character of meetings

Meetings convened by Unesco shall be divided into two groups: meetings of a representative character and meetings of a non-representative character.

Article 2 Meetings of a representative character

Meetings of a representative character shall be meetings at which cither States or governments or intergovernmental or international non-governmental organizations are represented as chief participants.

Article 3 Meetings of a non-representative character

Meetings of a non-representative character shall be meetings at which the chief participants act in a private capacity.

Article 4 Chief participants

For the purposes of these Regulations, the chief participants shall be those enjoying the full rights of the meeting in question, including the right to vote where applicable.

Article 5 Categories of meetings

1. Meetings of a representative character convened by Unesco shall be divided into three categories:

(a) International conferences of States (category 1);

(b) Intergovernmental meetings other than international conferences of States (category II);

(c) Non-governmental conferences (category III);

2. Meetings of a non-representative character convened by Unesco shall be divided into five categories:

(a)International congresses (category IV);

(b)Advisory committees (category V);

(c)Expert committees (category VI);

(d)Seminars, training and refresher courses (category VII);

(e)Symposia (category VIII).

Article 6 Scope

Subject to the provisions contained in the instruments, statutes or agreements relating to the meetings specified hereunder, and to the decisions taken by the competent organs of Unesco concerning such meetings, the Director-General shall take all necessary preliminary steps for the application to these meetings of the present Regulations:

(a)Meetings convened under legal instruments of a binding character applicable to Unesco;

(b)Meetings of bodies established within Unesco and having their own statutes;

(c)Meetings convened under a standing agreement concluded by Unesco with another organization; and

Meetings convened jointly by Unesco and another organi­zation.

Article 7 Official name of meetings

The names of meetings governed by the provisions of these Regulations shall be determined by the convening body, or failing that, by the Director-General.

Article 7A

Without prejudice to other provisions of these Regulations, the General Conference, the Executive Board or the Director-General

according to the category of meeting, shall decide upon the African liberation movements recognized by the OAU which are to be invited to send observers to the meetings referred to in these Regulations.

Article 7 В

Without prejudice to the other provisions of these Regulations, the General Conference, or the Executive Board or the Director-General, according to the category of meeting, shall invite the Palestine Liberation Organization, recognized by the League of Arab States, to send observers to the meetings referred to in these Regulations.

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SUMMARY

RECORD

(of a meeting)