Pakistan and China call for proper disaster control

28 Oct, 2005

World Meteorological Organisation, China's National Meteorological Bureau, and eight countries including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and India underlined the need for developing proper management of disaster control.
At a seminar held in capital of Tibet Autonomous Region, they agreed for promoting regional co-operation for assessment of the risks of floods, disaster control, flooding forecast.
The official sources told newsmen here on Thursday that some 60 experts from various countries adopted recommendations to improve the scheme of regional flood management and natural calamities.
They also discussed ways and means to seek solutions to floods in the Himalayas Mountains. Floods may incur serious losses to the people in China's Tibet and in the lower reaches of the rivers originating from the Himalayas region if no measures were taken to curb the natural disaster, said International Center for Integrated Mountain Development Director Gabriel Campbell.
Mountain flooding has been one of the major natural disasters that plague as outwest China's Tibet, with the Himalayas to the south, said Tibet vice chairman Doriji Cearing.
The official said the Chinese government had paid great attention to the prevention and treatment of the calamity and Tibet was drafting a plan on the prevention and control of the flooding.

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