JAKARTA, Jan. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- Better coordination in the global relief efforts and cooperation in building a warning system are among the topics of an emergency summit Thursday when delegates from over 25 countries and international bodies discuss the rescue and reconstruction work for the Indian rim countries hit by recent earthquake and tsunamis.

    Presidents, premiers or foreign ministers from the 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will be joined in Jakarta by their counterparts from major donors and leading aid and financial bodies including the United Nations (UN) and the World Bank.

    UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who holds the European Union (EU) rotating presidency, US Secretary of State Colin Powell, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will be among the high-profile attendants of the meeting.

    Australian Prime Minister John Howard, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, UNICEF chief Carol Bellamy will also be present at the meeting, called by Indonesia a week ago to smooth the colossal and sometimes disorganized relief operation in tsunami-devastated coastal areas from Asia to Africa.

    Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said a joint statement will be issued after the summit in which the leaders will express solidarity in the face of the disaster and pledge their long-term commitment to rebuilding the worst-hit regions.

    Countries will also discuss the possibility of creating an early alert system which can prevent the same kind of disaster from ever happening again.

    The nations that suffered the most in the Dec. 26 calamity, such as Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand, hope to get technical help to apply an early warning system in the future, such as the one which exists for the Pacific Ocean.