Brunei Joins Asean Team To Assess Myanmar Cyclone Victims' Needs

Bandar Seri Begawan - Brunei has sent a Fire and Rescue Department official to join the Asean Emergency Rapid Assessment Team to evaluate the critical needs of the Myanmar cyclone victims prior to ease the provision of humanitarian aids.

Superintendent Janaidi Hi Gunong together with other representatives from Asean, will meet with experts from the assessment team to survey the situation and assess the destruction caused by Cyclone Nargis.

The team will then produce a report which will state the conditions of the affected areas and-recommend the appropriate strategies for its reconstruction. This report will be brought up in an Asean ministerial meeting planned to be held in Singapore on May 19.

It was also hoped that from the assessment, the aid delivered to Myanmar would be more organised and effective.

Among the officials present at the Brunei International Airport to send off Superintendent Janaidi yesterday was the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Home Affairs, Pengiran Abd Haris Pengiran Hj Shabudin.

Prior to his departure, the permanent secretary briefed Janaidi on the purpose of his participation in the assessment as the sultanate's representative.

The Asean Emergency Rapid Assessment Team is a coordination effort between the Asean Committee on Disaster Management and the government of Myanmar.

The experts have "specific knowledge in coordination and liaison, water and sanitation, health, logistics and food", according to a press release on the Asean Secretariat website.

Following the assessment, teams from the Asean countries will be deployed to Myanmar to provide assistance which supports the capacity of Myanmar's government to implement useful and effective aid distribution to the affected population, Asean Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan said. (ODMI) -- Courtesy of The Brunei Times

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