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

The Action Team concluded that currently there were some initiatives in the area of disaster response that took advantage of space technologies, but few initiatives in the area of disaster prevention and mitigation.

The Chinese government allowed international aid and open media access to the disaster area .

The Macao Special Administrative Region has also sent a rescue team to the disaster hit area.

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.

Soon after the devastating earthquake in Pakistan, a public affairs team was deployed with our sizable military forces in the disaster area.

The whole state has been declared disaster zone, and it will take more than three months to clear the water from the area.

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

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.

The mountain is part of the area of volcanic activity known as the Cameroon Volcanic Line, which also includes Lake Nyos, the site of a disaster in 1986.

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.

In mainland China, disaster reporting typically spotlights the country's leaders coordinating the rescue work in the affected area and doesn't mention any of the concrete details of the relief measures.

Disaster beckoned.

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But my fear is that Kim would be a disaster even on health care issues an area where he has rightly earned credit for his work on AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis.

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

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.

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C. Post disaster recovery

The overall goal of UNOSAT in the area of disaster management is to facilitate physical planning and programme implementation by local authorities, project managers and field personnel working in emergency response and risk prevention.

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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