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.

Strengthened surveillance of road traffic

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.

Road traffic injuries can be prevented.

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

Road traffic accidents are predictable and therefore preventable.

Convention on Road Traffic. Vienna, 8 November 1968

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.

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

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

The Chinese Government attaches great importance to road traffic safety.

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.

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

In 1993, road traffic contributed about 24 of the total CO2 emissions and coastal traffic and fishing about 10 .

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

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.

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.

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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.

(b) Closing road between Austria Center Vienna (ACV) and VIC to vehicular traffic

The solution, as described, is designed for 2 x 2 lanes road traffic.

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.

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.

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.

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,

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

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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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).