Report 2021

2021

First, second, third and fourth quarter of 2021

Task forces for the UN Vienna-based Organizations were established in order to ensure better coordination of substantive matters related to the work programme of the various organizations:

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Task Force Leader:  Ms. Masenoametsi LETLALA,  First Secretary, Permanent Mission of South Africa (January-end June) & Mr. Mahmoud HAMDY, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Egypt (July-December)

Plenary meetings

Task Force meetings

3.2. IAEA: The Agency’s Draft Programme and Budget 2022–2023

16.  Briefing with acting DDG Mr. Tristan Bauswein and Director of Division of Budget and Finance on The Agency’s Draft Programme and Budget 2022-2023

18.2. First Meeting of the Working Group on the Regular Budget and TCF Targets for 2022-2023 on Monday, 22 February 2021 and IAEA Board of Governors Meeting, 1-5 March 2021

19.2. IAEA Board of Governors Meeting, 1-5 March 2021

4.3.  Second Meeting of the Working Group on the Regular Budget and TCF Targets for 2022-2023 on Tuesday, 9 March 2021

18.3. Third Meeting of the Working Group on the Regular Budget and TCF Targets for 2022-2023 on Monday, 22 March 2021

6.4. Exchange of views preparatory to the meeting with the Co-Chairs of the Working Group on the Regular Budget and TCF Targets for 2022-2023

9.4. Fourth Meeting of the Working Group on the Regular Budget and TCF Targets for 2022-2023 on Monday, 12 April 2021

Working Group

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

Task Force Leader: Mr.  Bolivar BAO, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of the Philippines  

Plenary meetings

15.1. G-77 Handover Ceremony

30.3. Presentation of Dr. Arkebe Oqubay (Ethiopia), candidate for the post of the Director General of UNIDO  

Task Force meetings

Working Group meetings

26.1. Meeting of all the G-77 Task Force Coordinators on the work programme for 2021 and the Chairperson of the Group

United Nations Office at Vienna (UNODC)

Task Force Leader:  Mr. Carlos GARCÍA REYES, Minister, Permanent Mission of Guatemala (January-end June) & Ms. Astrid PORTILLO, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of El Salvador (July-December)  

Plenary meetings

2.3. Exchange views and explore ways on the way forward to be able to come up with common positions in the coming months

1.4. Presentation of H.E. Ambassador Julia Emma Villatoro Tario, Permanent Representative of El Salvador, as candidate for the chairmanship for the “Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes”, to the members of the Group

Task Force meetings

18.2. a.m. UNODC: Fourteenth UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Kyoto, Japan 7-12 March 2021

18.2. p.m.  UNODC: Fourteenth UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Kyoto, Japan 7-12 March 2021

25.3. UNODC: 64th session of the CND, 12-16 April 2021

29.3. UNODC: 64th session of the CND, 12-16 April 2021

Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS)

Task Force Leader:  Mr. Patricio URUEÑA PALACIO,  Third Secretary, Permanent Mission of Argentina  

Plenary meetings

Task Force meetings

 7.4. UNOOSA: Scientific and Technical Subcommittee: 19–30 April 2021

13.4. UNOOSA: Scientific and Technical Subcommittee: 19-30 April 2021

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)

Task Force Leader:  Mr. Zainal Izran ZAHARI, Minister, Permanent Mission of Malaysia 

Task Force meetings

15.2. Briefing by the Secretariat on the work of UNCITRAL in 2021 

Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)

Task Force Leader:  Mr. Elyes LAKHAL, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Tunisia

Plenary meetings

Task Force meetings

22.1. CTBTO  resumed 55th session of the PrepCom, 27 January 2021

24.1. CTBTO  resumed 55th session of the PrepCom, 27 January 2021

2.3. CTBTO  Working Group B, 56th session, 8-19 March 2021