At its 50th plenary meeting, on 29 July 2011, the Economic and Social Council, recalling its decision 2010/241 of 21 July 2010, in which it had taken note of, inter alia, the report of the Eighteenth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Pacific,71 decided to hold the Nineteenth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok from 29 October to 2 November 2012.