Official process

• 10-21 February 1997, New York
  Commission on Sustainable Development - Intergovernmental Panel on Forests, fourth session
• 24 February-7 March 1997, New York
  Commission on Sustainable Development - Ad Hoc Intersessional Working Group
• 7-25 April 1997, New York
  Commission on Sustainable Development, fifth session
23-27 June 1997, New York
General Assembly, special session