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Sixth Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF-6) 13-24 February 2006 | UN Headquarters, New York Highlights from Wednesday, 22 February 2006 On Wednesday, 22 February, the sixth session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF-6) continued with negotiations on the international arrangement on forests (IAF). Working Group I (WGI) discussed the preamble, general mandate, voluntary instrument, and legal framework. WGII discussed working modalities, the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) and monitoring, assessment and reporting (MAR).

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Franz Perrez, Co-Chair of WGI, established a contact group to meet in the evening and the following morning, chaired by Tony Bartlett, Australia (right) Tony Bartlett, Australia Chile suggested that the review of the Resolution should be conducted by UNFF and not ECOSOC

Ana Cristina Rodríguez, Guatemala, supported choosing 2012 as the year of the review, as this is the year the Commission on Sustainable Development will be focusing on forests at this time

Oleg Shamanov, the Russian Federation, suggests amendments to text on the UNFF Trust Fund

Franz Perrez, Co-Chair WGII, confers with members of the EU delegation during a short pause in negotiations in the afternoon Brazil and the US discuss during WGI afternoon negotiations

The EU huddles midway through WGII afternoon negotiations

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Relevant links: Official website of the United Nations Forum on Forests UNFF 6 website Official documents ENB coverage of the UNFF and other forest processes: UN Conference for the Negotiation of a Successor Agreement to the International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994, 4th Part 16-27 January, 2006 Europe and North Asia Forest Law Enforcement and Governance 22-25 November, 2005 Scoping for a Future Agreement on Forests 16-18 November, 2005 ITCC-39 7-12 November, 2005 UN Conference for the Negotiation of a Successor Agreement to the International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994, 3rd Part, 27 June-1 July, 2005 UNFF-5 16-27 May, 2005 FAO Committee on Forestry: 14-19 March 2005

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