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09-10-2010, 01:00 PM
The 18th Meeting of the Special Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction, organized by the Association of Caribbean States is taking place in Santo Domingo from 9-10 September at the Ministry of Foreign Relations auditorium.
The secretary general of the CRRD, Luis Fernando Andrade highlighted that the tragedy in Haiti demonstrated the need for an evaluation of mitigation risk agendas in the region. Andrade began his work as secretary general just 10 days after the earthquake in Haiti. The committee is discussing strategies for strengthening operations and hydro-weather services in the Caribbean and all the national disaster risk mitigation platforms.

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