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

5. Underlines the need for international cooperation to deal with issues of road 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.

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.

Road safety education is important for inculcating the correct mindset and road behaviour in all road users.

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We are pleased to learn about the creation of the international road safety organization known as the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration.

It is important that the World Health Organization continue its successful coordinating activities on road safety issues in the United Nations system.

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

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Fourthly, my Government welcomes the decision by the World Health Organization and the United Nations regional commissions to jointly organize the first United Nations Global Road Safety Week, which would serve as a platform for raising awareness globally about road safety issues.

The General Assembly adopted resolution 58 289, which invited WHO to act as coordinator for road safety issues within the United Nations system.

Given this scenario, the imperative for increasing international cooperation to assist developing countries to effectively address issues of road safety cannot be overemphasized.

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.

The Chinese Government attaches great importance to road traffic safety.

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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

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

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.

Emphasis continued to be placed on combined 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.

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(c) Social security issues and safety nets

It invited WHO, working in close cooperation with the United Nations regional commissions, to act as coordinator on road safety issues within the United Nations system.

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.

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.

Lastly, it underlined the need for a further strengthening of international cooperation, taking into account the needs of developing countries, to deal with issues of road safety.

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.

Convinced also that responsibility for road safety rests at the local, municipal and national levels, and recognizing that many developing countries have limited capacities to address these issues,