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We have established an enforcement regime for appropriate vehicle safety standards so as to promote increased responsibility with regard to importing, selling and operating unsafe or non road worthy vehicles and to fostering vehicle safety.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

(a) Reaffirm its commitment to addressing the global road safety crisis

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

That action plan involves strategic collaboration between Government agencies, non governmental organizations and the private sector, and is aimed at enhancing road safety through a five E's approach encouragement, emergency preparedness, engineering, education and enforcement.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

We welcome the proposal for the first United Nations global Road Safety Week in 2007, which will target young road users.

That experience reaffirmed our belief that consistent political commitment and strict enforcement of traffic laws at all levels, as well as public support and involvement, are critical if road safety initiatives are to have the intended results.

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.

Following the first meeting of the Road Safety Collaboration, a resource to the activities and experience of those involved was produced, entitled The United Nations Road Safety Collaboration a handbook of partner profiles .

Greater emphasis is placed on the safety of road users and the provision of appropriate facilities to improve their safety status.

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

The Working Party on Road Traffic Safety of the Economic Commission for Europe is currently revising the consolidated resolutions on road traffic and on road signs and signals.

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.