Accra, Sept. 7, GNA - President John Evans Atta Mills on Wednesday stressed the need for Ghanaians to avoid practices that lead to disasters, because they set back the clock of progress. He noted that some disasters in the past few weeks could have been avoided if adequate preventive and protective measures had been put in place.

In a chat with Mrs Ruby Sandhun-Rojon, United Nations Resident Co-ordinator in Ghana, at the Osu Castle in Accra, President Mills said Ghana was ready to partner and learn from other disaster

risk nations to reduce the impact of the phenomena both at home and abroad. Mrs SandhunRojon together Mr Kofi Portuphy, National Co-ordinator of National Disaster

Management Organisation (NADMO) were at the Castle to brief President Mills on the involvement of

United Nations agencies in the country's natural disaster risk reduction. The meeting was to invite President Mills to participate in Ghana's observance of International

Day for Disaster Reduction, designated by the UN on October 12. More