THE INDONESIAN city of Yogyakarta will welcome the 5th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction from October 22-25.
Jointly hosted by the Indonesian National Agency for Disaster Management and the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, with support from regional and international development partners, the event will feature a pre-conference session, high-level round-table meetings, technical sessions led by experts in the subject, and other activities.
More than 1,000 government ministers and high-level personnel from 60 countries are expected to converge for this biennial conference which is organised by rotation in different Asian destinations.
The last Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction was held in South Korea in 2010.
