At its 131st plenary meeting, on 17 September 2012, the General Assembly, on the proposal of its President, decided to reach an agreement on the distribution of seats of the open working group established pursuant to paragraph 248 of the annex to resolution 66/288 of 27 July 2012 among United Nations regional groups and on the specific representatives who would be designated by Member States to occupy those seats at the beginning of the sixty-seventh session of the Assembly.