MANILA, Sept 27: Southeast Asian environment ministers on Tuesday promised swift action to help each other with the region’s recurrent problem of choking haze from forest fires and with other threats to biodiversity.
“We stand ready to assist each other by mobilising our resources to mitigate fires in the region during critical periods,” the ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) said in a statement.
The ministers also said they would call on Asean leaders to provide guidance on the issue during their summit in Malaysia in December.—AFP
