Road traffic accidents, and road fatalities in particular, remain a chronic problem in our world today.

Another commendable effort is the global road safety initiative, a partnership of seven private companies, launched in December 2004, which aims to reduce road traffic fatalities in developing countries.

For Fiji, casualties sustained in road traffic accidents increased by 9 per cent in 2004, as compared with 2003, while fatalities remained constant during the same period.

The Convention on Road Traffic, commonly known as the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, is an international treaty designed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by establishing standard traffic rules among the contracting parties.

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

Road traffic injuries can be prevented.

Expresses its concern at the continued increase, in particular in developing countries, in traffic fatalities and injuries worldwide

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.

Road traffic accidents are predictable and therefore preventable.

1. Expresses its concern at the continued increase, in particular in developing countries, in traffic fatalities and injuries worldwide

Compared with 2003, the year 2004 saw a significant 14.9 per cent reduction in road traffic accidents, a 4.9 per cent decline in fatalities, an 8.6 per cent drop in injuries and a 17.6 per cent decrease in property losses.

The European Federation of Road Traffic Victims and RoadPeace are working to establish a World Day of Remembrance for Road Crash Victims in recognition of road traffic victims and their family's loss and suffering.

My delegation also notes with appreciation the efforts of the Economic Commission for Europe Working Party on Road Traffic Safety to revise the consolidated resolutions on road traffic and on road signs and signals.

The Chinese Government attaches great importance to road traffic safety.

Unlike many other countries, in Iceland the large majority of road accident fatalities do not occur in the city.

Malaysia welcomes the role of the United Nations, especially the initiative of the Assembly to relentlessly increase the awareness around the globe on the need to address the issue of road traffic fatalities as a global public health and a development problem.

This conference also produced the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, which complements this legislation by standardising international traffic laws.

However, as rightly pointed out by the WHO World report on road traffic injury prevention, road traffic injuries can largely be prevented and controlled through rational analysis and counter measures.

Recognizing also that road traffic injuries are a preventable and treatable problem,

Road traffic injuries have become an ever more serious public health problem.

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

India, as a country that has a vast road network of more than 3 million kilometres and where road traffic is growing at the rate of 7 to 10 per cent per annum, attaches great importance to addressing the problem of road traffic safety and to reducing the adverse consequences of traffic accidents.

Also welcoming the proposal to designate the third Sunday in November as the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims in recognition of road traffic victims and their families' loss and suffering,

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

In the process of developing road transport, many countries will go through a period with high rates of road traffic accidents.

Thirdly, it invites Member States to implement the recommendations of the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention and to establish national agencies to develop a national action plan to reduce road traffic injuries.

First, it expresses its concern at the increase in traffic fatalities and injuries worldwide and reaffirms the importance of addressing global safety issues through international cooperation.

These resolutions build on the 1968 Vienna Conventions on Road Traffic and Road Signs and Signals and the European agreements supplementing them.

The road traffic accident data report plays a major role in the road safety planning and action of major stakeholders in Fiji.

Furthermore, the road from Asmara to Barentu, via Keren, remained closed to UNMEE traffic.

17 fatalities.

4 fatalities.

The basic traffic rules are defined by an international treaty under the authority of the United Nations, the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic .

Also welcoming the proposal to designate the third Sunday in November as the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, in recognition of road traffic victims and their families' loss and suffering,Ibid., para. 37 (i).

However, the higher number of deaths from road traffic injuries receives comparatively much less attention.

Iceland has taken seriously the recommendations of the World report on road traffic injury prevention.

Hizbollah took over traffic control on this road and prevented civilian movement to the border.

Frankly, four billion clean cars on the road are still four billion cars, and a traffic jam with no emissions is still a traffic jam.

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 underlying causes for that problem are scant awareness of road safety laws and regulations, poor road conditions and traffic environment and inadequate management.

This will definitely minimize the extreme traffic we are witnessing on the 4th ring road everyday!

In the same year, the country became a member of the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic.

The Government of Malaysia attaches serious attention to the problem of road traffic death and injury.

Local authorities provincial or municipal exercise direct control over all other aspects related to road traffic.

10. Invites Member States and the international community to recognize the third Sunday in November of every year as the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims as the appropriate acknowledgement for victims of road traffic crashes and their families