Chair’s Summary of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, First session, Geneva, Switzerland, 5-7 June 2007

This summary provides the Chair's assessment of the key points and suggestions expressed during the event. In this document, Mr John Holmes, USG for Humanitarian Affairs, Emergency Relief Coordinator, identifies priorities for the ISDR system for 2008-2009.

The main recommendations arising from the Global Platform contributed to the Report of the Secretary-General on the ISDR to the United Nations General Assembly.