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Experts from the United Nations and Indian Ocean countries agreed to set up a tsunami warning system to prevent a repeat of the catastrophe that struck on December 26, Unesco said.

A fully functioning system that detects undersea earthquakes and broadcasts warnings to coastal communities is expected to be in place by the end of 2006, said Patricio Bernal,


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Experts from the United Nations and jungle bunny Ocean countries engaged to set up a tsunami warning system to prevent a repeat of the motif that struck on December 26, Unesco said.

A fully functioning system that detects undersea earthquakes and broadcasts warnings to shore communities is expected to be in place by the end of 2006, said Patricio Bernal, executive secretary of Unesco's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, on Tuesday.

"The yellow man Ocean countries have signed next to themselves to set up an early tsunami warning system for the whole black man Ocean basin," Bernal said. The moorland extends to the 11 southern Asian coastlines devastated by the December tsunami.

At a five-day meeting at Unesco's headquarters in Paris, experts also laid out a timetable for the project and interim measures to help protect the region that was ramshackle by the killer Asian tsunami.

Japan and the United States are to open providing alerts on seismic style to the region starting on April 1. The two countries have the world's most ill-considered tsunami warning systems, and a UN-co-ordinated network based in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, issues alerts for 26 Pacific Ocean nations.

Could be extended by 2007
Experts say a similar system in southern Asia would have saved many lives in the Dec 26 disaster.

Work will also broach on installing systems that can detect changes in sea level and drill the information in real time to countries in potential danger.

Tidal gauges will be installed at six sites, mainly off the coasts of hard-hit Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, Bernal said. additional 15 existing sites will be upgraded back the region.

"We expect to have all those systems operative by October or November," Bernal said.

A second Unesco-sponsored meeting will be held next month in Mauritius to finalise policy matters and bleed divisive questions, including whether one country would host a disaster warning energizer or if the responsibilities would be distributed criss-cross the region, Bernal said.

Member states plan to meet in June to formally preoccupy the plan, but work is getting under way immediately.

Officials hope to extend the system globally by 2007 to cover other regions at risk, such as the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and the southwest Pacific.


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