Vulnerability must be looked at not only from a trade and commerce point of view but must take into account financial risk as well. In an era where currencies and interest rates are volatile, mainly due to the unpredictability of external factors such as unprecedented challenges to the well established international trading regime and the consequential effects of spiraling energy costs, natural disasters may push smaller nations towards uncontrollable economic chaos.
In this context, Sri Lanka urges the Commonwealth to re double its efforts and begin implementing a well targeted and thought out economic recovery plan to buttress the financial fallout of increasingly frequent natural disasters