BEIJING, Jan. 21 -- Officials from around the world meeting in Japan agreed on Thursday to establish a tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean within 12 to 18 months.
The pledge came from a United Nations-sponsored conference on disaster prevention in Kobe, Japan. Salvano Briceno, director of the U.N.'s disaster reduction body outlined the proposed timeline: "We've estimated with a technical institution that in the matter of a year, at latest 18 months, there should be a basic regional capacity on tsunami early warning."
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