The third part of the United Nations Conference for the Negotiation of a Successor Agreement to the International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994 (ITTA, 1994) has deferred resolution of contentious issues, including finance, operational activities, statistics and information, and entry into force of the new Agreement, until a fourth part of the UN Conference, which they agreed would meet from 16-20 January 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland.

The third part convened at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, from 27 June to 1 July 2005, and focused on the thematic areas of scope and finance for the new Agreement. Over 180 governments, international organizations and an intergovernmental body negotiated outstanding text in the final working document from the second part of the UN Conference. They approved informally over 20 articles of the Agreement, but the Vice-President of the Conference expressed concern about the small amount of flexibility shown by participants, and the dates for a fourth part were set. Full coverage.