<p>As part of the work programme of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), then known as the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, approved at its twenty-seventh annual session of ...

Since 1968, the Committee for Co-ordination of Joint Prospecting for Mineral Resources in Asian Offshore Areas (referred to briefly as the Co-ordinating Committee for Offshore Prospecting, and abbreviated to CCOP) has been ...