7. 此外，秘书处协助所有五个主席团成员安排与各区域组举行非正式会议，以帮助尽早反馈给秘书处，并关注他们在填写问卷时给出的答案。与区域集团召开了下列会议：(a) 10 月 9 日，与西欧和其它国家集团举行会议；(b) 10 月 10日，与亚太集团举行会议；(c) 10 月 12 日，与东欧集团举行会议；(d) 10 月 13日，与拉丁美洲和加勒比集团举行会议；(e) 10 月 14 日，与非洲集团举行会议。此外，主席和人口司司长于 11 月 23 日在联合国总部举行了一次关于工作方法的会议，会议向所有会员国开放。近 70 个会员国的代表出席了会议。秘书处将以照会的形式转达调查问卷、五个开放式问题和与区域集团会议以及与所有会员国举行会议的信息。
7. In addition, the Secretariat assisted all five Bureau members in organizing informal meetings with their respective regional groups to help Member States to provide early feedback to the Secretariat and to focus their answers in completing the questionnaire. The following meetings with regional groups were organized: (a) 9 October: meeting with the Western European and Others Group; (b) 10 October: meeting with the Asia-Pacific Group; (c) 12 October: meeting with the Eastern European Group; (d) 13 October: meeting with the Latin American and Caribbean Group; and (e) 14 October: meeting with the African Group. Furthermore, the Chair and the Director of the Population Division organized a meeting on the methods of work at United Nations Headquarters open to all Member States on 23 November. The meeting was attended by representatives from nearly 70 Member States. Information from the questionnaire, the five open-ended questions, the meetings with the regional groups and the meeting with all Member States would inform the note by the Secretariat on the methods of work.