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Cambodian PM leaves for World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Japan

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Phnom Penh - At the invitations of His Excellency Mr. Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan and His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, will lead a high delegation to attend the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, to be held from 14 to 18 March 2015 in Sendai, Japan.

The delegation will include His Excellency Mr. Nhim Vanda, Senior Minister in charge of Special Mission and First Vice President of the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM), His Excellency Mr. Ly Thuch, Senior Minister in charge of Special Mission and Second Vice President of the NCDM, and other members of the Royal Government of Cambodia.

The conference will review the progress of the “Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters” and consider its successor—a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction.

On the sidelines of the conference, Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen will be received in Royal Audience by His Majesty the Emperor Akihito and Her Majesty the Empress Michiko of Japan in Sendai and hold a bilateral talk with His Excellency Mr. Shinzo Abe.

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