
"With 570 million people in the region, it is time for us to be better prepared for future disasters by empowering ourselves with better techniques and coordinating mechanisms involving the governments and civil societies of ASEAN," ASEAN Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan said in the statement. The association has been criticised for a lacklustre response to disasters in the region, which experiences frequent earthquakes, storms and volcanic eruptions and is expected to be hard-hit by rising sea levels and wild weather caused by climate change…..
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