Northeast Asian Nations to Enhance Ties in Environmental ProtectionSix northeast Asian countries worked out new policies and measures to promote regional environmental cooperation at an international meeting in Beijing from July 25 to 28.Environment officials from China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Republic of Korea and Russia discussed progress in regional environmental cooperation -- achievements as well as problems -- at the Seventh Meeting of Senior Officials on Environmental Cooperation in North-East Asia. They also talked about issues related to the core fund of the North-East Asia Sub-regional Program for Environmental Cooperation in an effort to support the project of technological cooperation in environmental protection. Representatives from Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific(ESCAP), United Nations Environment Program, United Nations Development Program, Asian Development Bank, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, as well as Secretariat of UN Convention on Combating Desertification, were present at the meeting. During the period, the officials and the representatives, as well as invited NGO representatives, attended the Intergovernmental Meeting for North-East Asia in Preparation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, reviewing Agenda 21 passed at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). Reports adopted by the meeting will be delivered to the World Summit on Sustainable Development, which is to take place in Johannesburg, South Africa, in September 2002. Meeting of Senior Officials on Environmental Co-operation in North-East Asia was launched by ESCAP in 1993, as an action to implement decisions of UNCED. |
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