11th meeting of ASEAN Committee on disaster management opens

The 11th Meeting of the ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management kicked off in Ha Long city in the northern Vietnam on Thursday making significant progress in the field of natural disaster prevention and control. More than 168 delegates from ASEAN member countries and its partners attended the event.
At the meeting, participants adopted a Ha Long declaration on increasing early actions in disaster management in ASEAN, affirming the ministers’ commitment to strengthening the implementation of early actions in regional disaster management, especially focusing on the three main pillars of risk information, forecasting, and early warning systems; planning, operation, and execution; and promoting allocated financial resources.