At its 41st plenary meeting, on 23 July 2008, the Economic and Social Council took note of
the report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its tenth special session, held in Monaco from 20 to 22 February 2008,55 and the report of the United
Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names on the work of its twenty-fourth session, held in New York on 20 and 31 August 2007.56