43. 刚果盆地森林伙伴关系将设法提供给本区域人民可持续的生计方法、有力的机构、改进过的森林和自然资源的管理、管理较好的森林特许地、全国公园和保护区网。伙伴们于 2003 年 1 月在巴黎举行第一次会议。美国政府和一个非洲国家政府将在伙伴关系关两年执行期间作为共同主持人，然后其他伙伴将轮流担任促进的角色。
43. The Congo Basin Forest Partnership will seek to provide the people of the region with sustainable means of livelihood, stronger institutions, improved forest and natural resources governance, better-managed forestry concessions and national networks of parks and protected areas. The first meeting of the partners was held in Paris in January 2003. The Governments of the United States and an African country will serve as co-facilitators of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership during its first two years of implementation, after which the facilitation role will rotate to other partners.