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