At its 62nd plenary meeting, on 6 December 2007, on the recommendation of the Third Committee,56 the General Assembly, mindful of the need to maintain the institutional memory of the Consultative Committee on the United Nations Development Fund for Women established by its resolutions 31/133 of 16 December 1976 and 39/125 of 14 December 1984, and taking note of the resignation, with effect from 31 December 2007, of two members of the Consultative Committee, decided that the two new members of the Consultative Committee, who were to be designated by the President of the General Assembly in accordance with paragraph 13 of the annex to resolution 39/125, would be granted a full term of three years, beginning on 1 January 2008 and ending on 31 December 2010, and that the remaining three members of the Consultative Committee would continue to serve their three-year terms ending on 31 December 2009. The Assembly also decided that the future designation of the members of the Consultative Committee would follow the pattern decided upon above.