NEAR Secretary General Jun met with Levchenko Sergey, Governor of Irkutsk Region as a part of participating in the Working Committee held in Irkutsk Region, Russia and requested its interest and cooperation for NEAR as a chair region expressing his gratitude greeting to Levchenko for being appointed as a new Governor. Also, Secretary General Jun expressed his gratitude for supporting the Working Committee. He agreed to make an efforts to host General Assembly to be held in 2016 marking the 20th anniversary of NEAR’s founding and discussed a way to develop NEAR.