40. Encourages Member States to hold informal consultations on the enlargement of membership of the Committee during the thirty-eighth session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee and, if necessary, during the fortieth session of the Legal Subcommittee, with a view to reaching a consensus agreement on the matter at the forty-fourth session of the Committee;
40．鼓励会员国在科学和技术小组委员会第三十八届会议期间和必要时在法律小组委员会第四十届会议期间就扩大委员会成员问题举行非正式协商，以期在委员会第四十四届会议上就此问题达成一致协议；