After last month's disastrous tsunamis in which at least 160,000 people died, UNESCO plans to have a global tsunami warning system in place by the middle of 2007, the organization's head, Koichiro Matsuura, said Thursday. The first part of the system, intended for the region of the Indian Ocean, where December's tsunamis struck, could be ready by June of next year, Paris-based UNESCO quoted Matsuura as saying. Matsuura estimated the price of establishing the regional system at about 30 million dollars, and at 1 to 2 million dollars a year the cost of running it. The construction of the warning system would be the result of a collaboration between UNESCO's oceanographers and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as well as other partners.