At its 42nd plenary meeting, on 29 July 2009, the Economic and Social Council, recalling decision 8/2 of 1 May 2009 of the United Nations Forum on Forests,41 by which the Forum decided to complete the consideration at its ninth session of agenda item 6, based on the bracketed draft text developed in informal consultations during its eighth session,42 noted that the Chair of the ninth session of the Forum intended to undertake informal consultations in order to reach agreement among all Member States on the substantive issues in the bracketed draft text and authorized, should agreement be reached on those issues, the holding of a one-day special session of the ninth session of the Forum, within existing resources, at the earliest possible date in 2009, for the purpose of adopting the agreed text.
