A/HRC/42/2 Part two Summary of proceedings I. Organizational and procedural matters A. Opening and duration of the session 1. The Human Rights Council held its forty-second session at the United Nations Office at Geneva from 9 to 27 September 2019. The President of the Council opened the session. 2. At the 1st meeting, on 9 September 2019, the representative of the Bahamas made a statement. 3. In accordance with rule 8 (b) of the rules of procedure of the Human Rights Council, as contained in part VII of the annex to Council resolution 5/1, the organizational meeting of the forty-second session was held on 26 August 2019. 4. The forty-second session consisted of 42 meetings over 15 days (see paragraph 15 below). B. Attendance 5. The session was attended by representatives of States members of the Human Rights Council, observer States of the Council, observers for non-Member States of the United Nations and other observers and observers for United Nations entities, specialized agencies and related organizations, intergovernmental organizations and other entities, national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations (see annex I). C. Agenda and programme of work 6. At the 1st meeting, on 9 September 2019, the Human Rights Council adopted the agenda and programme of work of the forty-second session. D. Organization of work 7. At the 1st meeting, on 9 September 2019, the President referred to the online system for inscription on the lists of speakers for all general debates and all interactive dialogues at the forty-second session of the Human Rights Council. He also referred to the modalities and schedule of the online inscription, which was launched on 3 September 2019. 8. At the same meeting, the President referred to the modalities concerning the tabling of draft proposals after the tabling deadline. At the organizational meeting of the forty-second session, the Human Rights Council had agreed that an extension of the deadline for the submission of draft proposals would be granted only once, under exceptional circumstances, for a maximum of 24 hours. 9. Also at the same meeting, the President outlined the speaking time modalities which will be applied during the forty-second session. The speaking time for interactive dialogues with special procedure mandate holders under agenda item 3 would be two minutes for States members of the Human Rights Council, observer States and other observers. 8