Ministers call for improved relief coordination
Asia-Pacific nations should adopt a more coordinated response to relief operations in the disaster-prone area, top regional officials said at a security conference yesterday.
Malaysian Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi called for the establishment of centres focusing on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) in the region.
"I think (a) few HADR centres have to be set up," he said at the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual security conference in Singapore.
This would supplement the existing Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) facility governing cooperation among the group's 10 member nations, Ahmad added.
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