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

WHO has developed an online global road safety legislation database, building on the comprehensive work already undertaken for the European region by the Economic Commission for Europe Working Party on Road Traffic Safety.

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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.

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.

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(h) Encourage Member States to become parties to the Conventions on Road Traffic and Road Signs and Signals and to bring their national legislation into conformity with those Conventions in order to ensure a high level of road safety in their countries

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.

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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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.

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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.

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.

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

Its Road Traffic Safety Act came into force on 1 May 2004.

In its resolution 58 289, entitled Improving global road safety , the General Assembly recognized the need for the United Nations system to support efforts to address the global road safety crisis.

In countries where road safety is neglected, the international community needs to find ways to encourage efforts to reduce road traffic injuries and to make national Governments aware of the need to integrate road safety into their transport and health policies.

(g) Encourage Member States to continue using the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention as a framework for road safety efforts and implementing its recommendations, including the establishment of a lead agency on road safety and the development of a national action plan to reduce road traffic injuries

In the area of encouragement, the plan involves setting up an effective road safety executive structure and a multidisciplinary working group to make strategic changes aimed at enhancing road safety in Singapore.

Convinced that road safety requires partnerships, bridging many sectors of society, to promote and facilitate efforts to prevent road traffic injuries,

We hope and believe that, eventually, such an improved road infrastructure will also serve to improve road safety in the country.

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has been entrusted with the responsibility of formulating policies for road safety in India.