A/RES/72/271
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 April 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 12
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 12 April 2018
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/72/L.48 and A/72/L.48/Add.1)]
72/271.
Improving global road safety
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 57/309 of 22 May 2003, 58/9 of 5 November 2003,
58/289 of 14 April 2004, 60/5 of 26 October 2005, 62/244 of 31 March 2008, 64/255
of 2 March 2010, 66/260 of 19 April 2012, 68/269 of 10 April 2014 and 70/260 of
15 April 2016, on improving global road safety,
Having considered the note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report on
improving global road safety 1 and the recommendations contained therein,
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for
the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions –
economic, social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner, and to
building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking
to address their unfinished business,
Recalling that the Sustainable Development Goals and targets are integrated and
indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development, and
acknowledging the importance of reaching the road safety-related targets, such as
target 3.6, which aims to halve, by 2020, the number of global deaths and injuries
from road traffic accidents, and target 11.2, which aims to provide, by 2030, access
to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving
road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs
of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older
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