Importance of disaster risk reduction underlined by Vanuatu cyclone devastation
Statement delivered by European Commission Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva on 14 March 2015, at the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held in Sendai, Japan. It so happened that a major natural disaster was taking place at the same time as the Conference, with the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu devastated by Cyclone…
