Forests are they key component of the environmental on our planet. Therefore the problem of forests and afforested areas became the part of the Agenda 21 accepted by the UN Conference on Environment and Development in year 1992. It was a strong impulse for foresters to intensify the activities connected with protection of forest associations and their sustainable management. Europe is in certain advance and therefore in preparation and discussion of the UNGASS it endeavored for the World Agreement on Forests to be accepted. The Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF) that had to integrate different opinions and to prepare the text of the Agreement has not fulfilled this purpose. The only result of the UNGASS was establishment of the International Forum on Forests that ought to continue in preparation of the Agreement. Slovakia supports the standpoint of the European Union and aims at quick preparation and acceptance of the World Agreement on Forests.