United Nations World Conference Sample Clauses

United Nations World Conference. The committee took note of the presentation by Xx Xxxxxxxx Xxxx (United Nations ISDR) setting out the results of the Kobe World Conference on Disaster Reduction, in particular the Hyogo Declaration and the Hyogo Framework for Action (2005-2015). Xx Xxxxxxxx Xxxx welcomed the Agreement’s contribution in political and scientific terms and with regard to the Euro-Mediterranean region. She drew participants’ attention to the need for countries to become actively involved in implementing the conference outcomes. Xx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx (OCHA, United Nations) said that a series of consultations had already started, in particular with the Council of Europe. A high-level international meeting on early-warning systems was due to be held in New York at the end of March 2005, while a further meeting was to be held in Luxembourg on 24 June 2005 under the Luxembourg Presidency of the European Union to look at the measures taken six months after the tsunami in south-east Asia. Xx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Director at the Council of Europe Development Bank, underlined the benefits of partnership between the Bank and the Agreement and the need for synergy between the Bank and other international organisations. The Executive Secretary drew participants’ attention to the various documents in the files, relating to the exchanges between the Secretary General of the Council of Europe and the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Co-ordinator following the tsunami. He underlined the main points of the statement by the Head of the Council of Europe delegation at the Kobe Conference, who had referred to the potential contribution the Agreement could make to the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (2005- 2015), in particular with regard to: • mobilisation of the potential of the Agreement’s 26 centres and their possible contribution to the third international conference on early-warning systems due to be held in Germany in November 2005; • the contribution of the Agreement’s work on comparative analysis of legislation on integrated risk management; • the contribution in terms of education and “local risk culture”. Lastly, he also referred to various initiatives under way, in particular the colloquy held in Nice on 25 February 2005 on the subject of a tsunami warning system for the western Mediterranean, which had been attended by several representatives of Agreement centres.
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