India will make a presentation on the relief and rehabilitation works being undertaken by it for people affected by the tsunami disaster at an emergency summit of tsunami-hit nations and key aid donors in Jakarta on Thursday.
Several world leaders, including United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Association of South East Asian Nations leaders will be attending the summit.
External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh will represent India at the daylong summit. He arrived in Jakarta on Wednesday evening
Singh will make a presentation on the mobilisation efforts that India has undertaken internally in Andaman and Nicobar, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry and also on the help extended by New Delhi to its neighbours Maldives, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand, which were all devastated by the tsunamis.
The summit is likely to focus on setting up a system to warn about natural calamities like tsunamis. It will also discuss ways to secure more aid for affected nations, long-term rebuilding strategies and programmes to help survivors cope with trauma.
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