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Japan hosts meeting on disaster management

Xinhua, March 14, 2015 Adjust font size:

A United Nations conference was launched Saturday in Japan on a new framework for managing disaster risks which aims at reducing mortality and economic losses.

An estimated number of 8,000 participants, including an unprecedented number of high-level officials, took part in the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, from March 14 to 18.

U.N. secretary Ban Ki-moon said the conference aims at updating the landmark agreement reached a decade ago, known as the Hyogo Framework for Action, which detailed the work required from various sectors to reduce disaster losses can set a course to greater resilience to disasters.

Japan just marked the fourth anniversary days ago of the 2011 earthquake that left more than 18,000 people dead and triggered the continuing Fukushima nuclear crisis. Endi