Ms. Celeste Saulo, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization and Ms. Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Executive Secretary of ESCAP at the signing of the MOU
In the margins of the 79th Session of the General Assembly, the Executive Secretary of ESCAP, Ms. Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, and the Secretary-General of World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Mr. Celeste Saulo, signed a Memorandum of Understanding today at the WMO Office in New York.
The MOU seeks to strengthen the partnership between ESCAP and WMO to advance joint work towards building resilience to climate and disaster risks and promoting early warning services and systems. The priority areas of the envisaged cooperation include, amongst others, jointly contributing to the regional and national implementation of the UN Early Warnings for All initiative, strengthening regional platforms on tropical cyclones and enhancing climate risk and disaster information and services.
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