16 March 2009, Rome - Jan Heino, Assistant Director-General of FAO's Forestry Department speaking during the Meeting of the Bureaux of the Regional Forestry Commissions. (Right) Pape Djiby Koné, Senior Forestry Officer, FAO Regional Office for the Near East; (left) Pham Minh Thoa from Viet Nam, Chair of the previous (eighteenth) session of COFO.