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Seventeenth Session of the FAO Committee on Forestry (COFO)

15-19 March 2005 | Rome, Italy

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	Saturday, 19 March On the final day of COFO17, the Committee heard from Patrick Durst, FAO, on the forest sector's contribution of to post-tsunami reconstruction and rehabilitation (COFO 2005/9), and engaged in a short discussion on this issue. The Committee then adopted the report of the session and scheduled the next COFO session for 12-16 March 2007 to be held at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy. The meeting was gaveled to a close at 12h10.


	From left: José Antonio Prado, FAO, Wulf Killmann, FAO, Hosny El-Lakany, FAO, Co-Chair David Rhodes, Douglass Kneeland, FAO, Amb. Zohrab Malek, Armenia and Michael Martin, FAO


	Co-Chair David Rhodes, New Zealand, lead discussion of final report		Frank Wolter, Luxembourg, for the EU approved the draft report		Patrick Durst, FAO, reviewed efforts in post-tsunami rehabilitation


	Egypt congratulates Chair of the Drafting Committee		Norway Supports approval of draft final report		Linda Mossop-Rousseau, South Africa, discusses draft report


	Arturo Oliva Herrera, Honduras		José Antonio Prado, FAO		Wulf Killmann, FAO

		Closure of the Session

	Hosny El-Lakany, FAO (center), thanks participants for suggestion for strengthening post-tsuname rehabilitation efforts

		Rome from the rooftop
			seventh floor of the FAO building

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FAO Forestry Web site
Documents for the COFO
Provisional agenda
ENB coverage of COFO-16
ENB report from COFO-12 (pdf)
ENB's coverage of the International Conference on Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management (CICI)
Sustainable Development's summary of the Expert Meeting on Forest Landscape Restoration (Costa Rica, 2002)


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