The 6th Senior Officials Meeting was held on 9-10 March 2000 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. The meeting adopted the Vision Statement for Environmental Cooperation in North-East Asia, which, together with the Framework of NEASPEC, is seen as the main policy basis to NEASPEC in the 21st century. In this connection, the Meeting emphasized the need for further development of the present NEASPEC Framework into a more comprehensive programme for environmental cooperation, requesting the ESCAP Secretariat to administer a core fund in order to support projects adopted by the SOMs and reviewing titles of the three project components following the Technical Assistance Project funded by the ADB: a) Regional Training for Reducing Pollution from Coal-Fired Power Plants; b) Environmental Monitoring, Data Collection, Comparability and Analysis; and c) Action Plans for Improving the Efficiency of Particulate Abatement Systems in Existing Power Plants.