CAIRO, Representatives of Arab nations, including Kuwait, assembled in the Egyptian capital Cairo for talks on Sunday aiming to ratchet up cooperation in a bid to keep potential environmental disasters at bay. The three-day gathering comes with the primary objective of putting a place a "coordination system" linking Arab League states that seeks to ensure competent disaster management, the Cairo-based bloc's water resources and housing department chief Shuhaira Wahbi said in a statement. Ahead of forthcoming Arab-wide talks on the matter, she said the region's most underdeveloped nations would given more priority due to their vulnerability to the risk of disaster, added the official. Source : Kuwait News Agency
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