(25 Mar. 05) Mr. Kun-Mo Choi, Director, RCARO and the staff participated in the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development in Asia and the Pacific (MCED) held on 24-29 March 2005 in Seoul, Korea. The UNESCAP organized conference simultaneously and had various side events such as the Eminent Scientists Symposium, Civil Society Forum, Private Sector Forum, Environmental Technology Forum, Knowledge Partnership Project Meeting and so on in which currently impending environmental management issues were highlighted.