ASEAN, Primme inister of Cambodia Hun Sen proposed to increase cooperation to prevent the disaster
Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Sen called for ASEAN member countries to increase cooperation and information back and forth to prevent the disaster.
Disaster management is an important topic when leaders of the ASEAN member countries, the desire to create the ASEAN Economic Community in the coming end of 2015.
In front of the ASEAN Ministers in charge of disaster management, Prime Minister Hun Sen said that key measures for disaster management, state ASEAN members must collaborate and provide rapid response to the disaster to each other forecast and prevent preparations in advance: that leaders discussed today should cooperate with each other on issues providing information related to each other to reduce the risk. For example, flooding can happen Laos to provide information quickly and also provide information quickly to Vietnam to reduce the Such accidents.
Meanwhile, the prime minister added that the ASEAN member countries to help develop the capacity and institutions as well as providing technical knowledge, skill and experiences about new discoveries to disaster management.
At present disaster occurred frequently and larger size, which is hard to estimate.
Closing the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Disaster Management 3rd, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Hor Namhong seen Southeast Asia is vulnerable to a natural phenomenon over the last decade, causing loss of thousands of lives and destruction of property large-scale properties for billions of dollars.
Hor Namhong said that for developing countries is a disaster caused by climate change not only the loss of life and destruction, but It is also a source of insecurity of life both citizens and food poverty and hinder the development of sustainable, .
To fight natural disasters, the government believes that the joint response of ASEAN as well as the world will be able to help reduce accidents at low levels.
In particular, related to the disaster, President of the Cambodian Human Rights Task Force Ouch Leng, who oversaw the destruction of natural resources and the environment in Cambodia said that if the government still protects private companies to continue logging illegally and carrying out sales in international markets, forest extinction without rest, and will cause the natural disaster occurred. He added that natural disaster management measures for poor countries like Cambodia, the government must consider re-forest: Forest play an important role, an environmental protection system to prevent natural disasters if all the forests, whether foreign or director his ministers have been able to do to prevent natural disasters, meaning that ordinary citizens row, waiting to die. '
Related to natural forest cover in Cambodia Ouch Leng said the remaining approximately 20%. The roots of this forest loss, and the last few years, Cambodia has suffered severe natural disasters such as drought varies very hot weather Dry winds and floods killed more than 200 people and killed by lightning.
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