UN: Southeast Asian floods trigger humanitarian crisis

According to Voice of America, Jerry Velasquez, a senior regional coordinator with the UN International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), said that over the long term, countries such as Thailand need a more comprehensive framework to manage disasters, especially floods.

Velasquez says UN disaster analysis raises fears the current flooding in Thailand may be a prelude to even worse flood catastrophes in the future. He also adds that the floods and disasters across the region pose a threat to the countries’ achieving their key development goals by 2015.