Answer» Correct Answer - Option 4 : All of the above
The correct answer is All of the above . - All the member states of the United Nations and other states met at the World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction in the city of Yokohama from May 23rd-27th 1994.
- It acknowledged that the impact of natural disasters in terms of human and economic losses has risen in recent, and society, in general, has become vulnerable to natural disasters.
- It also accepted that these disasters affected the poor and disadvantageous groups the worst, particularly in the developing countries, which are ill-equipped to cope with them.
- Hence, the conference adopted the Yokohama strategy as a guide to the rest of the decade and beyond, to mitigate the losses due to these disasters.
- The resolution of the World Conference on Natural Disasters Reduction is as mentioned below:
- It will note that each country has the sovereign responsibility to protect its citizens from natural disasters.
- It will give priority attention to the developing countries, particularly the least developed,land-locked countries and small-island developing states. Hence, Statement 2 is correct.
- It will develop and strengthen national capacities and capabilities and, where appropriate, national legislation for natural and other disaster prevention, mitigation, and preparedness, including the mobilization of non-governmental organizations and participation of local communities.
- It will promote and strengthen sub-regional, regional and international cooperation in activities to prevent, reduce and mitigate natural and other disasters, with particular emphasis on
- human and institutional capacity-building and strengthening. Hence, Statement 1 is correct.
- technology sharing: the collection, the dissemination, and utilization of information; and mobilization of resources. Hence, Statement 3 is correct.
- It also declared the decade 1990-2000 as theInternational Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR).
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