WE, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) stand in solidarity on the occasion of the Seventh Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2022) on 23-28 May 2022 in Bali, Indonesia;
ACKNOWLEDGING the increasingly complex disaster riskscape in the region due to the multi-layered compounding natural hazards and interconnected risks associated with growing population, rapid urbanisation, impacts of climate change, and other crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, among others;
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