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About the General Conference |
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Useful
information
Information Office
 Documents
Essential
reading
Delegates' seating
Workings languages
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Information Office |
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To find out all you want to
know about the schedule, content and workings of the General Conference, contact the
Delegates’ Information Office.
The daily schedule of meetings will be displayed in the hall of the Conference
Building and on the closed-circuit television screens; it will also be announced in the
Journal of the General Conference.
Detailed information on the General Conference and its workings, in particular
the Constitution and the Rules of Procedure, can be found in the "Basic
Texts" which are available in meeting rooms. |
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Documents |
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To indicate which
documents your delegation would like to receive during the General Conference, in what
language and how many copies, all you need to do is fill in G.C./Form 18 which can be
obtained from the Documents Distribution service, in the basement of the Conference
Building. You will find your documents every day in your pigeon-hole at that counter.
In each meeting room, delegates will find at their place a complete set of the
documents needed for the work of the body which is using that room. It is recommended that
that set of documents should remain in the room so that it can be updated. |
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Essential reading |
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Two documents: C/1
(Agenda) and C/2 (Organization of work) must be read so that you can decide which
commissions and meetings you will attend. The same applies to the Journal of the General Conference, which is issued
every day, starting on the first day of the session. |
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Seating arrangements for delegates |
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In the plenary meeting
rooms and in the commissions, Member States have a place which is allocated in
alphabetical order according to the name of each country in French, starting with a
country which is chosen by drawing lots. The number of seats per delegation varies
according to the room. Places will be set aside for observers. |
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Working languages |
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The working languages
are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Simultaneous interpretation is
provided in these six languages; all documents which require a decision by the General
Conference are also published in these languages.
Information documents (C/INF.) and the Journal of the General Conference are available
in English and French only. |
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