The regional meetings were attended by disaster management officials from disaster prone and responding countries in the region.

Strengthening community level capacities to address disasters is especially needed, considering that appropriate disaster reduction measures enable the community and individuals to reduce their vulnerability to disasters.

Urges the international community to render assistance for setting up national, sub regional, regional and international disaster prevention, preparedness and management mechanisms, including early warning systems.

There is also a need to draw a distinction between natural disasters and terrorist disasters caused by man.

In the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, more than 500 million Hong Kong dollars have been raised.

Recognize the urgent need, as evidenced by the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean, to develop regional disaster reduction strategies and establish regional mechanisms for surveillance, early warning, prevention, assessment of natural disasters and for disaster relief, post disaster rehabilitation and reconstruction

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6. Urges the international community to render its assistance to the drought victims and for setting up national, subregional, regional and international disaster prevention, preparedness and management mechanisms, including early warning systems

This is the largest metropolitan area disaster in decades, and it was not a natural disaster it was a disaster of engineering.

The Chinese Government has also dispatched medical and rescue teams to the affected areas at very short notice. The Macao Special Administrative Region has also sent a rescue team to the disaster hit area.

Regional organizations in disaster prone regions should play a greater role in disaster risk reduction and management by devising regional level programmes and by supporting the efforts undertaken by the countries of the region.

Secretary General Kofi Annan and the heads of the United Nations agencies concerned paid timely visits to the disaster stricken areas to carry out inspections and provide guidance in disaster relief efforts.

In addition to the economic and social losses incurred, the report before the session also reviewed national and regional experiences in disaster management and preparedness and examined emerging issues in regional cooperation in natural disaster reduction.

7. Encourages the strengthening of cooperation among States at the regional and subregional levels in the field of disaster preparedness and response, with particular respect to capacity building at all levels

The Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre, based in Bangkok, is working through the Consultative Committee on Regional Cooperation in Disaster Management on mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into the social and economic development efforts of the Governments of the region.

Disaster risk mitigation and preparedness are integral to the planning of human settlements in countries prone to natural disasters.

The disaster relief materials transported from the capital Jakarta are being transported to the disaster area through the air transport aircraft.

National Governments, local institutions and affected communities have primary responsibility for disaster management.

The United States is committed to the long term reconstruction of the affected countries.

We must help to rebuild livelihoods and communities.

Local and regional response teams will always be the first line of defence against the destructive impact of natural disasters.

We applaud the leading role of the affected countries in addressing this disaster, and we recognize the role of the United Nations in assisting the affected countries' coordination of international assistance in the emergency relief phase.

Recognizing national and regional efforts to undertake disaster preparedness, response and mitigation efforts to minimize the impact of natural disasters, and reiterating the responsibility of all States in that regard,

And we've been flying into disaster areas since this past January, setting up software, training residents and licensing the software to areas that are preparing for disasters.

Following the devastating tsunami in December 2004, the issue of ICT knowledge based disaster management was included in regional discussions and the Regional Action Plan.

While the impetus may vary from one region to another, as reiterated during the regional sessions held at the Conference, regional and subregional organizations continue to play a crucial role in the implementation of the Strategy.

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B. Regional disaster related problems and projects

The U.N. wanted to rush people and supplies to the area.

It was the worst ever disaster in the region's history.

Recognizes the importance of the decision by the Association of South East Asian Nations to establish regional mechanisms on disaster prevention, preparedness and mitigation, encourages regional cooperation in this regard and urges donor countries and regional and international organizations as well as other relevant institutions to provide, where appropriate, financial and technical assistance

While the preparedness of disaster prone countries needs to be enhanced at all levels, particular emphasis should be placed on the community level, as local communities are the first and primary actors in the early relief efforts.

Concerned by the recurrent drought, which still affects millions owing to the serious crop failures in drought prone parts of the country and the pastoralist areas that have weak infrastructures and low development capacities,

Concerned by the recurrent drought, which still affects millions owing to the serious crop failures in drought prone parts of the country and the pastoralist areas that have weak infrastructures and low development capacities,

(a) Urgently mobilize further additional resources to meet the emergency relief needs of victims in the affected countries

Emphasize the importance of regional cooperation and coordination in disaster reduction to effectively address the impact of natural disasters

It is estimated that Fangshan District will still see a sustained rainfall and there will be geological disaster risks in mountainous areas and shallow mountainous areas.

(1) Training Workshop on Community Based Disaster Risk Management

As part of the efforts to cope with the disastrous situation, the Nigerien Government allocated 326 tons of emergency relief food to aid people afflicted by the natural disaster, and planed to provide financial and technical support to the disaster hit area.

Deliberate or accidental fires have had disastrous effects on the ecology and economy of the areas concerned.

While some organizations have developed disaster response mechanisms, others have not paid much attention to disasters affecting their region.

We are happy to note that in the South Asia region, which has experienced two of the world's worst natural disasters in a matter of ten months, the thirteenth summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), which concluded yesterday in Dhaka, highlighted the importance of cooperating in disaster preparedness and disaster management and decided to establish a regional disaster management centre in India.

It is estimated that there is still a thundershower or shower in Miyun District from the late afternoon to night that day, and mountainous areas and shallow mountainous areas will be at high risks of small and medium sized river floods, mountain torrents, geological disaster and other secondary disasters arising from heavy rainfall.

The Red Cross constantly supplies food to the disaster areas.

A severe drought was reported in the south west of the country.