20. 在第 VI/22 号决定第 37 段中，公约缔约方会议确认了公约和论坛的补充作用，并吁请公约、论坛及其伙伴间进行有效的协作。它请公约执行秘书同论坛秘书处的协调员和负责人就若干活动进行合作。它还请伙伴关系成员支持执行森林生物多样性工作方案，确认在实现公约和论坛共同目标的活动方面，伙伴关系提供了加强合作的机制。它吁请努力加强了解生态系统办法和可持续森林管理之间的关系，并促进在国家生物多样性战略和行动计划和国家森林方案之间的兼容和互补。
20. In paragraph 37 of decision VI/22, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention recognized the complementary roles of the Convention and the Forum and called for effective collaboration among the Convention, the Forum and their partners. It requested the Executive Secretary of the Convention to work in collaboration with the Coordinator and Head of the Forum secretariat on certain activities. It also invited the members of the Partnership to support the implementation of the programme of work on forest biological diversity, recognizing that the Partnership provided a mechanism for enhancing collaboration on activities addressing common goals of the Convention and the Forum. It called for efforts to better understand the relationship between the ecosystem approach and sustainable forest management and promote compatibility and complementarity between national biodiversity strategies and action plans and national forest programmes.