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Minister for the Americas Sir Alan Duncan said:
Im back in the Crisis Centre because once again weve had another meeting of COBR, which is our emergency committee, because were looking at an unprecedented sequence of events where having had so many hurricanes theres now a serious danger that were going to get yet another.
So we are tracking Hurricane Maria and as you can see behind me weve got all the details to see where its going, and we have to prepare for the worst but hope for the best. But one of the consequences of having these earlier hurricanes is weve got a lot of people and equipment in place.
So what we are very vigorously doing now is trying to anticipate where the damage might lie, and pre-positioning supplies and all of the equipment that can lead to the maximum resilience for these poor people whove been hit once and might be hit again.
So we are focusing of course on our Overseas Territories, which on this occasion might include Montserrat, which was lightly affected last time, but we are working around the clock to do our very best. And Id urge everybody to follow the travel advice which we are regularly updating.
Be assured that we are doing our utmost to anticipate where help is needed and to make sure that if this hurricane hits people, and hits them again, we will be there to deliver the need that people will want.