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OAS PERMANENT COUNCIL EXPRESSES SOLIDARITY
WITH COUNTRIES HIT BY NATURAL DISASTERS
August 22, 2007
Delegations from Member States that have been affected by natural disasters that recently overwhelmed the region briefed the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today on the soaring number of casualties, massive material damages and the recovery efforts currently underway in those countries.
At the beginning of the regular meeting, the Permanent Council observed a minute of silence in memory of the victims of Hurricane Dean and the devastating earthquake that killed more than 500 people in the city of Pisco, Peru.
Ambassador Deborah-Mae Lovell, Permanent Representative of Antigua and Barbuda and Permanent Council Chair, expressed her solidarity with the governments and peoples affected by the disasters. “The strength of an organization such as ours and the ability to reach out in support and solidarity becomes evident in a time like this”, she said while highlighting the support received from several countries of the hemisphere.
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza said that the Organization, through the Inter-American Emergency Aid Fund (FONDEM) worked with the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) to raise funds that will help the recovery efforts. Insulza said that these organizations had raised approximately US$200,000, “and that amount is expected to increase in the next few days.”
However, the Secretary General stressed that, although urgent help is critical, the region must examine long-term strategies to improve its ability to face these types of crises.
“These tragedies tend to show the strength of our people and their ability to recover, but they also reveal the enormous weakness of the regional organizations’ support mechanisms,” he said.
In this regard, Ántero Flores-Aráoz, Permanent Representative of Peru, called for the strengthening of the hemispheric system, which must be able to face natural disasters of this magnitude. “When disasters like these strike, even though countries may say they are ready to face them, in practice they are not. Countries with slow economic growth have to deal with every day issues. Many times they have to tackle the day-to-day problems instead of focusing on prevention. Therefore, prevention is not efficient enough.”
Ambassadors of several countries expressed their solidarity with Peru as well as the countries hit by Hurricane Dean.
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