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The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) East and North-East Asia Office was inaugurated on 17 May 2010 in Incheon, Republic of Korea. Since its establishment, the Office has been working closely with six member States and two associate members to build and strengthen partnerships and cooperation for inclusive and sustainable development in the subregion.

It also serves as the Secretariat of the North-East Asian Subregional Programme for Environmental Cooperation (NEASPEC) which was launched in 1993 by the same six member States as a subregional follow-up of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED, Rio Conference) in 1992 to promote environmental cooperation in the subregion.

History
Pursuant to the recommendations of the report of the UN Secretary-General on improving the effective and efficient delivery of the mandates of development-related activities (A/62/708) and the UN General Assembly resolution on development-related activities (63/260), new ESCAP Subregional Offices were established during 2010-2011 for North-East Asia, Central Asia and South Asia. The Secretary-General report highlighted the need to strengthen delivery of programme at the subregional levels by facilitating subregional linkages as well as policy dialogue on emerging issues of concern, and promote specific subregional priorities and programmes.

Key Areas of Work
Under the overall mandate to support regional economic cooperation and integration and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Office carries out the following work:

1. Addressing Social Challenges through Science, Technology and Innovation
 * Knowledge-Sharing Platform for Sustainable Ageing Societies
 * Youth Innovation for SDGs
 * SDGs Monitoring and Implementation using Big Data

2. Strengthening Intraregional Connectivity
 * Trade and Transport, in particular, with Mongolia
 * International Road Transport Agreement between China, Mongolia, and the Russian Federation
 * Policy Consultation and Knowledge Sharing on Cross-Border Trade Facilitation

3. Facilitating Development Cooperation
 * North-East Asia Development Cooperation Forum
 * Green Technology Facilitation

4. Promoting Disaster Resilient Societies
 * Capacity Building for Drought Monitoring and Early Warning in Mongolia
 * Disaster-related Statistics and Data

5. Improving Environmental Sustainability through NEASPEC*
 * Transboundary Air Pollution*
 * Desertification and Land Degradation*
 * Nature Conservation*
 * North-East Asian Marine Protected Areas Network (NEAMPAN)*
 * North-East Asia Low Carbon City Platform (NEA-LCCP)*
 * Asia Carbon Footprint Network (ACFN)

Member States

 * 1. Flag of South Korea.svg Republic of Korea
 * 2. Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China
 * 3. Flag of Japan.svg Japan
 * 4. Flag of North Korea.svg Democratic People's Republic of Korea
 * 5. Flag of Mongolia.svg Mongolia
 * 6. Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation

Associate Members

 * Flag of Hong Kong.svg Hong Kong
 * Flag of Macau.svg Macau

Location
7th Floor, G-Tower 175 Art Center-daero, Yeonsu-gu Incheon 22004, Republic of Korea