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

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

There are various methods for broadcasting information to the area affected by a disaster.

We fully support efforts in the area of natural disaster mitigation, especially in the light of recent global trends.

It is particularly encouraging to see initiatives in regions previously less active in the area of disaster risk reduction.

And if some community member is in this organizing position in every area after every disaster, these tools should exist.

A priority area of interaction of the Republic of Belarus with the Agency is cooperation to overcome the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster.

After the earthquake and tsunami, the Chinese Embassy in Indonesia learned through various channels to verify the situation of Chinese citizens in the disaster area.

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.

The Global Disaster Alert System, which is the result of the collaboration between the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat and the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office, will redefine the area of early information dissemination for disaster management.

States are called upon to build a strong sense of ownership in the area of disaster risk reduction within their populations and support of local Governments capacities.

We flew the area. We imaged it. We sent in people. We took pictures of interiors, disaster areas. We helped with the first responders, the search and rescue.

Finally, we would like to reiterate our condolences to the peoples, the countries and the families affected by the disaster in the Indian Ocean area and on other continents.

First, the tsunami disaster illustrated the lack of a systematic disaster management framework, including disaster mitigation measures, in many countries.

Furthermore, the complementarity between optical and radar images of the same area has already proven to be an excellent and powerful tool for advanced applications and an asset in natural disaster monitoring and relief.

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.

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The Conference represented a landmark in worldwide understanding of and commitment to implementing a comprehensive disaster risk reduction agenda. It revealed the wealth of knowledge and practical abilities that exists in the area of disaster risk reduction but which has not been made available in a consolidated manner or applied as effectively as it could have been.

Under a three year workplan, it would share information on existing national and international space system based disaster management systems and would identify the long term perspectives of Member States and space agencies in that area.

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Relevant United Nations organizations and donor Governments should strengthen the capacity of disaster prone countries in disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and post disaster recovery within a disaster risk reduction framework, by supporting relevant initiatives in this field.

Recognizing the clear relationship between development, disaster risk reduction, disaster response and disaster recovery and the need to continue to deploy efforts in all these areas,

3 Including ESCAP, ASEAN, the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center and the Asian Disaster Reduction Centre.

Recognizing also the clear relationship between development, disaster risk reduction, disaster response and disaster recovery and the need to continue to deploy efforts in all these areas,

The Asian Disaster Reduction Centre is a specialized organization for disaster reduction based in Kobe, Japan.

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We recognize that the international community has accumulated much experience with disaster risk reduction through the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and the succeeding International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.

Noting the ongoing work of all the working groups established by the Inter Agency Task Force for Disaster Reduction, namely the Working Group on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction, the Working Group on Disaster Reduction in Africa, the Working Group on Risk, Vulnerability and Disaster Impact Assessment and the Working Group on the World Conference on Disaster Reduction,

15. Recognizes that information and telecommunication technology can play an important role in disaster response, encourages Member States to develop emergency response telecommunication capacities, and encourages the international community to assist the efforts of developing countries in this area, where needed

Regarding the proposal for joint office models for Cape Verde and the Maldives discussed in the report, he said that because of the recent tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean area, the Maldives would no longer be part of the exercise.

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

We need a comprehensive strategy to achieve such disaster management including early warning systems and disaster preparedness plans.