ASEAN Weekly Disaster Update, 16 – 22 July 2018

1) The tropical cyclone (TD) Inday of Cambodia in the Philippine People's Democratic Republic, Henry / Sung Ting by TD Josie, the recorded event at 29 th week is still mainly hydrometeorological and Vietnamese. . At 30 weeks there are five valid systems: TS 11 (Son - Tinh), TS 12 (Inday), TS 13 (Josie) TS 14, and TD 15. The general public advises to keep monitoring each meteorological agency. The AHA Center will continue to publish a series of flash updates as part of regional observations. You can get it from here.

2) With the increase of hot spot activity observed in Kalimantan and Sumatra, the ASEAN Professional Weather Center caused 2 warning levels. This is consistent with the observation of dry weather by the AHA Center last week. Because it is expected that dry climates will occur in the majority of the southern ASEAN over the next few weeks, hot spot activity may expand further in areas where fire is prone to occur.

3) Four earthquake registrations were observed in Indonesia> M 0: Although the epicenter was relatively shallow, there were no damage or casualties caused by the earthquake (BMKG). In Week 29, the Philippines had two weak to medium earthquake registrations> M 0 (PHIVOLCS)

The 10th ASEAN Plus three foreign ministerial meeting (ASEAN + 3) was held on 22 July in Phuket, Thailand. Foreign Minister expressed concern about recent North Korea nuclear test and missile launch and encouraged North Korea to abide by the UN Security Council resolution. We also encouraged six-party talks as a regional security forum, including all participants in the six-party talks, and the early restart of ASEAN regional forums. The 15th ASEAN Summit was held in Thailand on 23rd October. In his statement, the President urged North Korea to comply with the UN Security Council Resolution and urged all parties to return to the six-party talks. The president also said that the Philippines chaired the 2010 NPT Review Conference and encouraged ASEAN Member States to become signatories or parties to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) before the Review Conference recognized.

The 13th ASEAN Summit was held in Singapore from November 18th to 22nd. The meeting focused on energy, environment, climate change, and sustainable development. In this regard, the potential growth of nuclear power utilization is being debated. Member States drafted the "ASEAN Summit Declaration on Environmental Sustainability" signed at the thirteenth ASEAN Summit. At the 39 th ASEAN Ministerial Conference held from July 24th to 25th, the ministers announced a joint communiqué expressing concern about the recent trend of North Korea - Dapengdong-2 missile on July 5 Including testing - may affect regional peace and security. The two leaders emphasized the necessity of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and asked all concerned to use the ASEAN regional forum as a future opportunity to resume the six-party talks and peacefully settle the nuclear issue .

Another progress during the series of meetings is the signature of the ASEAN regional forum on ASEAN regional forum on July 2 and the Russian Joint Statement on International Terrorism and the signature of the ASEAN and Australia's joint international anti-terrorism statement on 10+ It was. One meeting on 1 July. The 10th ASEAN Summit was held in Vientiane, Laos from 29th to 30th November. The Leaders reaffirmed the top priority of political and security cooperation in the ASEAN agenda. They supported the action plan of the ASEAN security community aimed at strengthening the capacity of ASEAN through regional norms and the development of mechanisms and mechanisms to strengthen regional conflict prevention, resolution, peacebuilding. Also agreed to establish a forum for ASEAN Defense Minister. The Leaders agree that it is urgently necessary to maintain terrorism cooperation activities