In her keynote speech, Ms. Mizutori said: “Mongolia itself is vulnerable to a range of natural hazards including drought, floods earthquakes and forest fires. The government has shown great leadership on disaster risk reduction in the Asia Pacific region”.

In 2017, as the then Deputy Prime Minister of Mongolia, Mr. Khurelsukh was recognized as a UNISDR Asian Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction. Mongolia was also the first country in Asia Pacific to fully commit all its municipalities to UNISDR’s Making Cities Resilient Campaign which aims to help cities and local governments prepare for, and reduce risks and become resilient to disasters.

The Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction will conclude on Friday.

For more information visit the 2018 AMCDRR web site. Conference proceedings are live-streamed on https://ikon.mn/ .

For updates on Twitter follow @UNISDR #AMCDRR2018

For further information and to arrange interviews contact;

Denis McClean, Chief Communications, UNISDR.

Email: mccleand@un.org Tel: +41 794445262

Patrick Fuller, Communications Consultant, UNISDR

Email: pfuller1@gmail.com Tel: 86510441

For media accreditation to attend the AMCDRR 2018  contact;

Bayarmagnai Puntsag email: dep11-2@mfa.gov.mn Tel: 99111851

Date:

3 Jul 2018

Sources:

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific (UNISDR AP)

Themes:

Civil Society/NGOs

Countries:

Mongolia

Regions:

Asia, Oceania