60 5. Improving global road safety

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

It is equally important for automobile manufacturers to constantly review their engineering processes and designs in the interest of promoting road safety.

The Assembly will now take a decision on draft resolution A 60 L.8, entitled Improving global road safety .

Providing funds to the United Nations regional commissions is also crucial in order to ensure their active contribution to improving road safety in their regions.

For many countries, the lack of financial resources is a major obstacle to efforts to increase road safety.

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

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.

A 60 L.8 Add.1 Item 60 Global road safety crisis 85 Power draft resolution Improving global road safety A C E F R S

Everyone has a responsibility to keep our roads safe.

(b) Upgrading of roads . 5 726 000

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.

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

Informal consultations on the draft resolution entitled Improving global road safety , under agenda item 60 (convened by the delegation of Oman)

Informal consultations on the draft resolution entitled Improving global road safety , under agenda item 60 (convened by the delegation of Oman)

The British government uses a figure of a little more than 1 million as a general limit to the amount it is prepared to pay to save a statistical life for example, by improving road safety.

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.

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

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

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

(ii) Upgrading of roads .

(h) Minor roads improvement scheme.

11. Requests the Secretary General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty second session on the progress made in improving global road safety

Informal consultations on the draft resolution entitled Improving global road safety , under agenda item 60 (Third Committee) (convened by the delegation of Oman)

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,

Improving safety on our roads became a top priority for the Government of Oman.

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 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.

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

(ii) Upgrading and maintenance of roads

(b) Upgrading of roads . 6 242 000

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.

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

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

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

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

We believe that what is being accomplished by the Working Party is a very successful example of specific, multilaterally agreed practical measures aimed at improving international legal norms in the area of road safety.

For example, we have road investment strategies that accommodate both large road construction projects and highly targeted black spot projects.

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.

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.

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