Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Surin Pitsuwan will visit Indonesia's quake-hit province of West Sumatra on Tuesday, a release from the ASEAN Secretariat said on Monday.
The secretary-general would find out for himself how ASEAN can assist the government of Indonesia in dealing with the disaster.
In Padang, the capital of the province, Pitsuwan would also get a first-hand overview of the latest situation in the wake of the 7.9 magnitude quake from the relevant government authorities including the Governor of West Sumatra and the Mayor of Padang.
Pitsuwan would be joined by the Head of the country's National Disaster Management Agency, who is the focal point of the ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management (ACDM) for Indonesia.
Pitsuwan, who is also the ASEAN Humanitarian Assistance Coordinator, will be accompanied by representatives from the ASEAN Secretariat and the interim ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management (AHA Centre), which is based in Jakarta.
Over the weekend, Dr Surin had also sent his envoy, the Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for ASEAN Political-Security Community, Sayakane Sisouvong, to the Philippines, which was hit by Tropical Storm Ondoy (international name: Ketsana) on 26 September 2009, causing massive flooding and displacement of thousands of people.
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