Representatives from 42 organizations have attended the two meetings,1 which have allowed the participants to share their experiences and expertise in road safety.

The document reflects the road safety profiles of partner organizations that participated in the first meeting, containing an overview of each organization's road safety activities, and provides contacts for focal points to facilitate communication.

It is hoped that the document will provide a valuable resource to those working or intending to work in road safety.

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.

Reaffirms the importance of addressing global road safety issues and the need for the further strengthening of international cooperation, taking into account the needs of developing countries, by building capacities in the field of road safety, and providing financial and technical support for their efforts

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The World Health Organization has hosted meetings of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration, whose outcomes are contained in the report of the Secretary General.

2. Reaffirms the importance of addressing global road safety issues and the need for the further strengthening of international cooperation, taking into account the needs of developing countries, by building capacities in the field of road safety, and providing financial and technical support for their efforts

(7) Regional Training Center of BioSafety

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

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

In that context, Australia acknowledges and applauds the draft resolution's reaffirmed commitment to international cooperation on road safety.

The focus on safer roads will enable us to deal with the need to improve road design, construction and management.

This overview of activities being conducted in road safety at a global level should help to identify gaps and possible areas of collaboration.

Thirty one other international agencies working in road safety, with a broad range of skills and experience, are also represented.

We support the involvement of the regional commissions, as well as other international agencies, to address the issue of road safety and assist national Governments in instituting measures aimed at enhancing road safety in their respective countries.

Taking up the challenge of United Nations and World Health Assembly resolutions to assist developing countries in the area of road safety, the World Bank is currently investigating the establishment of a global road safety facility.

Everyone has a responsibility to keep our roads safe.

Both meetings highlighted the importance of road safety within the framework of the Millennium Development Goals.

The part States will play at all levels is crucial to achieve road safety.

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

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

In the last two decades, the Government has taken numerous steps to improve road safety in Singapore.

In 2004, the Government placed the issue of road safety on the national agenda.

By engaging groups that have historically not been very active in road safety in these global dialogues on road safety, one output of the Collaboration has been the identification of new opportunities through the different skills and resources that partner agencies have brought to the group.

(d) Call upon Member States to develop work programmes in road safety, noting that these programmes should be seen to be profitable investments for Governments to undertake

Malaysia has indeed taken serious measures to improve road safety and reduce fatalities.

4. Invites the United Nations regional commissions, relevant United Nations agencies and international partners to continue the existing road safety initiatives, and encourages them to take up new ones

Invites the United Nations regional commissions, relevant United Nations agencies and international partners to continue the existing road safety initiatives, and encourages them to take up new ones

Those are regarded as basic prerequisites to tackle the road safety problem in Fiji.

For example, the Economic Commission for Africa plans to carry out a study documenting best practices in road safety, involving African ministers of transport and working jointly with the African Union and the African Development Bank.

Training

This includes the adoption of safety promoting designs, construction, rehabilitation and upgrading procedures in land use planning and improvements in road networks.

Convinced that responsibility for road safety rests at the local, municipal and national levels,

Convinced that responsibility for road safety rests at the local, municipal and the national levels,

The project will focus on research aimed at assisting high level decision making on road safety priorities identifying the progress required to meet national targets analysing the funding of road safety measures and describing issues concerning resource allocation.

The goal of these events was to plan how to tackle the issue of road safety.

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

In the area of engineering, experts from Singapore's land transport authority use up to date and comprehensive data systems and accident trend analysis to incorporate safe practices into the planning, designing and managing of roads.

(e) Encourage Member States to include road safety within their projects aimed at tackling the Millennium Development Goals

Awards have also been instituted at various levels to recognize important contributions made to road safety.

Seminar on the General Assembly discussion on Global road safety (organized by the World Health Organization)

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

The extensive collaboration between the Department of Safety and Security and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations on training continued during the reporting period to include finalization of the security training modules for mission specialists and senior mission leadership.

That is reflective of the broad support and attention given to the need to tackle the question of road safety.