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Draft Resolution for the International Arrangement on Forests Beyond 2015 will be forwarded to the United Nation Economic and Social Council for approval.
At the high-level meeting, the Ministerial Declaration was adopted. With this Declaration, ministers responsible for forestry confirm their commitment to reach a stronger and more effective international agreement on forests beyond 2015. It aims to facilitate the particularly significant role of forests in a sustainable development programme beyond 2015 by: improving the implementation of a sustainable forest management; deepening the dialogue in forestry; and encouraging cooperation among all the organisations, conventions and other forest-related processes.
On 13 May, Latvian Minister for Agriculture Jānis Dūklavs represented the European Union at the high-level meeting of the Forum on Forests expressing the common position of the EU Member States. The Minister emphasised that good forest management is the basis for a dynamic development of the sector.
The UN Forum on Forests, which started in 2000, is a high-level policy forum in the forestry sector. The main objective of the forum is facilitating the management, conservation and a sustainable development of all types of forests.
