At its 91st plenary meeting, on 22 December 2011, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Second Committee,69 recalling Economic and Social Council decision 2011/248 of 27 July 2011, decided to endorse the ministerial declaration adopted at the high-level segment of the ninth session of the United Nations Forum on Forests on the occasion of the launch of the International Year of Forests70 and to transmit it as a contribution of the Forum to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to
