International Coordination Meeting for the development of Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System for the Indian Ocean within a Global Framework
UNESCO Headquarters, France, 3-8 March 2005 -
Room XI - starting at 0930 on 3 March

This event will build on the work of the Kobe meeting (World Conference on Disaster Reduction, Kobe, Japan, 18-22 January 2005), continued at the Phuket meeting (Ministerial Meeting on Regional Cooperation on Tsunami Early Warning Arrangements, 28-29 January 2005), towards the establishment of a Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System for the Indian Ocean within a global tsunami warning and mitigation system framework.

Expected outcome

The expected outcomes of this meeting will be:

• Indian Ocean Member States fully informed, at the technical level, on tsunami warning and mitigation programmes at the national, regional and global levels;
• Draft Design Plan for a Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System for the Indian Ocean that includes considerations for the international, regional and national levels;
• Draft work plan and timetable for the establishment of a Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System for the Indian Ocean, including the regional and national requirements;
• Scoping exercise completed to move in the direction of establishing a global tsunami warning system.

Venue of the Meeting

The plenary meetings on 3,4,7 and 8 March will take place in Room XI of UNESCO’s main building (7 Place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris SP 07). The venue of the meeting of the drafting groups and ad hoc groups will be announced during the plenary sessions. Participants should make their own hotel arrangements.

Hotel information is available HERE

Documentation: (List as on 2 March 2005)

Document Reference	Document Title	MS-Word	PDF
IOC/IOTWS-I/1	Provisional Annotated Agenda (including details on speakers) (revision 2 March 2005))
IOC/IOTWS-I/1 Add Prov	Provisional Timetable (revision 1 March 2005)
IOC/IOTWS-I/2 rev	General Information on the Meeting ( version of 11 February 2005)
	Terms of reference for Drafting groups
	INFORMATION DOCUMENTS
	Communications Plan for the Pacific tsunami warning System (2005 edition)
	ITSU Master Plan (english version) (9.7 MB)
	Jakarta declaration
	Kobe WCDR Draft common statement of the Special Session on the Indian Ocean Disaster: Risk Reduction for a safer Future
	Phuket Ministerial Declaration on Regional Cooperation on Tsunami Early Warning Arrangements Phuket
	Summary Report of the Nineteenth Session of the the International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific, held in Wellington, New Zealand, from 29 September to 3 October 2003
	ITIC Services
	POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS
	These will be added after presentations have been made during the meeting

Participants

Invitations have been sent to all IOC Member States through IOC Circular Letter 2142 of 10 February 2005 ( or ). Paper copies are being sent on Friday 11 February 2005. Electronic copies have been sent by email (on 10 February 2005) to ,

• IOC Action Address
• IOC Officers
• Permanent Delegations to UNESCO

Organizations and other contact points relevant to tsunami warning and mitigation as known to IOC will receive invitations as well. Those who have not received invitations and would like to attend the meeting are invited to contact us on p.pissierssens@unesco.org

Provisional List of partiicpants HERE