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In accordance with the decision of the Economic and Social Council at its fifty-third session, the Population Commission held its second special session at United Nations Headquarters from 19 to 30 March 1973. The Commission held 19 plenary meetings (268th to 286th meetings). 

In taking note of the report of the Commission's first special session in that role, 1/ the Council, at its resumed fifty-third session, formally endorsed a proposal that the Commission should meet at approximately six-month intervals during the period between August 1972 and the opening of the Conference in August 1974. The current session was convened in pursuance of that action by the Council.