当21世纪新千年曙光照耀地球之时,全球减灾事业的新里程碑正在这颗星球屹立。20世纪最后一年,联合国为确立这新里程碑召开了许多重要会议,其中1999年7月5-9日在日内瓦召开的国际减灾十年活动论坛作出“21世纪,一个更安全的世界:减轻风险和灾害”的战略文件;1999年7月30日?.. As the dawn of the new millennium in the 21st century shines on the earth, a new milestone in the global cause of disaster reduction is now standing on this planet. In the last year of the 20th century, the United Nations held a number of important meetings to establish this new milestone. The Forum of the International Decade of Reductions Decade, to be held in Geneva from July 5-9, 1999, made a statement “A safer world in the 21st century: risk reduction And disasters ”; July 30, 1999?