At its 40th plenary meeting, on 23 July 2007, the Economic and Social Council, recalling General Assembly resolution 59/265 of 23 December 2004, in which the Assembly decided, inter alia, that there should be an intervening period of at least two weeks between the closing of the sessions of relevant intergovernmental bodies and the beginning of the session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, and also recalling Commission on Sustainable Development resolution 13/1 of 22 April 2005,25 in which the Commission decided, inter alia, to devote, in 2008, a separate segment at the end of its review session to monitor and follow up the implementation of decisions on water and sanitation and their interlinkages, taken at the Commission’s thirteenth session, decided that the sixteenth session of the Commission (review session) should take place from 5 to 16 May 2008, that the intergovernmental preparatory meeting for the seventeenth session of the Commission should take place from 23 to 27 February 2009 and that the seventeenth session of the Commission (policy session) should take place from 4 to
