17 MARCH 2015
15 March 2015, Sendai, Japan - Samoa has called for a more coordinated effort to help build resilience in the Pacific islands at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan. The important role of partnerships is significant to Samoa, host of the 2014 UN SIDS Conference the theme of which was "Sustainable development of SIDS through genuine and durable partnerships."
Source: SPREP