ASEAN call for co-ordinated response to natural disasters - 2005

Intelligence chiefs from the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), meeting in Manila in November 2005, have proposed that the organisation develops a co-ordinated military response to natural disasters. The initiative comes as the first anniversary approacjes of the devastating tsunami that hit areas around the Indian Ocean in December 2004.


ASEAN--DISASTER RESPONSE