More specifically, they aimed at raising awareness stimulating new road safety legislation creating organizations for road safety and promoting further research.

To generate awareness among schoolchildren, essay competitions on road safety are organized.

A road safety week is organized annually to raise awareness of these issues.

Assistance is also needed to finance awareness campaigns among the population on road safety.

We need to intensify our efforts to raise worldwide awareness of the road safety crisis and its consequences.

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Global road safety crisis

Global road safety crisis.

Global road safety crisis.

World Health Day 2004, the launch of the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention, the passing of two road safety resolutions and road safety activities that were spurred by these events around the world over the past year all attest to growing awareness and commitment.

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Fourthly, my Government welcomes the decision by the World Health Organization and the United Nations regional commissions to jointly organize the first United Nations Global Road Safety Week, which would serve as a platform for raising awareness globally about road safety issues.

This awareness has been matched by an unprecedented momentum in taking concrete actions to address road safety, both at the international and national levels.

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It compiles data on road accidents and prepares annual road safety plans.

The initiative is a five year, 10 million project aimed at reducing road traffic fatalities in several developing countries through targeting key road safety themes, training road safety professionals and providing seed money to support pilot programmes to improve road safety.

A number of objectives to meet this goal have also been identified. These are to assess the road safety situation and existing national facilities to address the problem to develop guidance and support for effective road safety interventions to provide capacity development on road safety issues to advocate for and encourage demand for road safety to strengthen global and regional coordination on road safety and to improve the safety of fleets of United Nations vehicles for all road users.

Road safety education is important for inculcating the correct mindset and road behaviour in all road users.

As raising awareness is critical to maintaining the momentum generated by the global road safety events of 2004, Thailand supports the proposal to designate the third Sunday in November as the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, to organize jointly, through the United Nations regional commissions and the World Health Organization, the first United Nations Global Road Safety Week, and to convene, as a part thereof, a second Road Safety Stakeholders' Forum.

The meetings of the Road Safety Collaboration have allowed smaller groups with common interests to meet separately and discuss road safety issues.

We are pleased to learn about the creation of the international road safety organization known as the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration.

Products of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration

Since 1990, the Economic Commission for Europe Working Party on Road Traffic Safety has held four road safety weeks for its 55 member countries.

The Subcommittee recommended the adoption of a regional declaration on road safety and the organization of an exhibition on road safety at the Conference.

The International Road Safety Organisation (PRI) is a non governmental organization founded in 1959 to promote cooperation among national institutions dealing with road safety.

Given the growing awareness and commitment, and with the continued efforts of all, I am confident that global road safety is a goal that we all can attain.

The sixteenth Road Safety Week was observed throughout India from 3 to 9 January 2005, with the theme Road Safety Is No Accident , which is also the theme chosen by the World Health Organization in declaring 2004 as Road Safety Year.

Over the years, the Government of Singapore, working with the private sector, has launched campaigns, road safety talks, exhibitions and even videos promoting road safety.

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Oman's initiative to raise global awareness about road safety is based on its own experience and realization that the problem can only get worse if nothing is done about it.

The Chinese Government attaches great importance to road traffic safety.

At the international and regional levels, Malaysia continues to be an active partner in the Global Road Safety Partnership under the aegis of the World Bank, the World Road Association, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Land Transport and Safety Committee, the Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australasia and the ASEAN sub working group on road transport and road safety.

Under that initiative and in order to give specific attention to road safety, a separate department for road safety was established in September 2004 to address the issue.

To date, the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration has met twice.

The importance of road safety has to be ingrained in everyone.

(ii) Two seminar proceedings on local administration and road safety, bilingual

The regional commissions will participate actively in this global road safety campaign and encourage countries in their regions to organize national road safety campaigns related to the theme selected.

The resolution on road safety and health also called upon Member States to prioritize road safety as a public health issue and to take steps to implement measures that are known to be effective in reducing road traffic injuries.

Through inter agency collaboration in road safety, the secretariat has been raising raise awareness and sharing best practices, through a series of expert group meetings I it has also developed the Asia Pacific Road Accident Database to monitor progress and encourage policy action. In addition, ESCAP, a founding member of the Global Road Safety Partnership and has worked with a wide range of partners including ADB, GRSP, IRF, PIARC, and IRU.

Road safety remains a neglected and growing public health and development issue.

The global road safety crisis is a modern epidemic of extraordinary proportions.

A year ago, the State Council held a forum on road safety.