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FAO is conducting a series of regional and sub-regional workshops as part of the preparatory work for the country reporting to the Global Forest Resources Assessment update 2005 (FRA 2005). These regional workshops respond to requests made by many member countries during the global training session held at FAO Headquarters in Rome in November 2003. The Sub-regional Workshop for Russian-speaking FRA National Correspondents and Focal Points was held in Wyszkow (some 80 km from Warsaw, Poland), in premises of the Wyszkow Forestry District (Nadleœnictwo Wyszków), from the 7 to 11 of December 2004. It was jointly organized by the UNECE/FAO Timber Branch in Geneva and the FAO Forestry Department in Rome, and hosted by the Polish State Forest Service (Lasy Panstwowe) located in Warsaw. The MCPFE Liaison Unit (Warsaw) helped to run the workshop, which was attended by 17 (seventeen) participants from 11 countries. Mr. Volker Sasse (SEUR`, Budapest) also assisted during the whole workshop as part of the FAO-FRA team. The meeting was held in Russian language. Invitations to the workshop were extended to the officially nominated National Correspondents (NCs) and FRA Focal Points, those speaking and working with the FRA 2005 documents mainly in Russian language. The list of participants is attached (Appendix 1).
