Appendix III
1512 High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation
Session: Did not meet in 2009 President: Macharia Kamau (Kenya) Membership: All States participating in UNDP Human Rights Council
Sessions: Ninth special, 9 and 12 January; tenth special, 20 and 23 February; eleventh special, 26–27 May; twelfth special, 15–16 October; tenth regular, 2–27 March; eleventh regular, 2–18 June; twelfth regular, 14 September–2 October, all in Geneva President: Martin I. Uhomoibhi (Nigeria) (until June); Alex Van Meeuwen (Belgium) (from June) Membership: 47 Reports: A/64/53, A/64/53/Add.1, A/65/53 Decision: GA 63/420 Independent Audit Advisory Committee
Sessions: Fifth, 20–22 February; sixth, 13–15 April; seventh, 30 June– 2 July, all in New York; eighth, Geneva, 2–4 December Chairperson: David M. Walker (United States) Membership: 5 Reports: A/64/288, A/65/329 International Civil Service Commission (ICSC)
Sessions: Sixty-eighth, New York, 23 March–3 April; sixty-ninth, Montreal, 29 June–10 July Chairperson: Kingston P. Rhodes (Sierra Leone) Membership: 15 Report: A/64/30 Decision: GA 64/412 Advisory Committee on Post Adjustment Questions Session: Thirty-first, Vienna, 26 January–2 February Chairperson: Wolfgang Stöckl (Germany) Membership: 6 International Law Commission
Session: Sixty-first, Geneva, 4 May–5 June; 6 July–7 August Chairperson: Ernest Petrič (Slovenia) Membership: 34 Report: A/64/10 Investments Committee
Chairperson: William J. McDonough (United States) Membership: 9 Decision: GA 64/410 Joint Advisory Group on the International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO
Session: Forty-third, Geneva, 14–15 December Chairperson: Dennis Francis (Trinidad and Tobago) Membership: Open to all States members of UNCTAD and all members of WTO Report: ITC/AG(XLIII)/232 Joint Inspection Unit (JIU)
Chairpersons: Even Fontaine Ortiz (Cuba) (January–May); Gérard Biraud (France) (June–December) Membership: 11 Report: A/64/34 Decision: GA 63/416 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme Session: Sixtieth, Geneva, 28 September–2 October Chairperson: Alberto J. Dumont (Argentina) Membership: 78 Report: A/64/12/Add.1 Decisions: ESC 2009/201 C, ESC 2009/252 High Commissioner: António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres
Panel of External Auditors
Session: Fiftieth, Bonn, Germany, 7–8 December Membership: Members of the UN Board of Auditors and the appointed external auditors of the specialized agencies and IAEA Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization
Meeting: New York, 17–25 February Chairperson: Emmanuel Bichet (Switzerland) Membership: Open to all States Members of the United Nations Report: A/64/33 Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories
Meetings: Cairo, Egypt, 3–7 August; Amman, Jordan, 7–11 August; Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic, 11–13 August Chairpersons: Samantha Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka), Hamidon Ali (Malaysia) (Acting) Membership: 3 Report: A/64/339 Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations
Meetings: New York, 23 February–20 March Chairperson: U. Joy Ogwu (Nigeria) Membership: 144 Report: A/63/19 Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
Session: New York, 27 February and 6 April (first part); 8–9, 15–19 and 23 June (second part) Chairperson: R. M. Marty M. Natalegawa (Indonesia) Membership: 28 Report: A/64/23 United Nations Administrative Tribunal
Sessions: Sixtieth plenary, New York, 23 November; regular, Geneva, 29 June–31 July; regular, New York, 26 October–25 November Presidents: Spyridon Flogaitis (Greece), Geneva session; Dayendra Sena Wijewardane (Sri Lanka), New York session Membership: 7 Report: A/INF/64/7 United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
Executive Board The UNDP/UNFPA Executive Board acts as the Executive Board of the Fund. Managing Director: Helen Clark (UNDP Administrator) United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
Session: Forty-second, Vienna, 29 June–17 July Chairperson: Soo-Geun Oh (Republic of Korea) Membership: 60 Report: A/64/17 Decision: GA 64/405 United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine
Membership: 3 Report: A/64/174 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Session: Did not meet in 2009 Membership: Open to all States Members of the United Nations or members of the specialized agencies or of IAEA Secretary-General of UNCTAD: Supachai Panitchpakdi