A/RES/72/271 Improving global road safety 28. Reiterates its invitation to Governments to take a leading role in implementing activities in support of the voluntary global performance targets for road safety risk factors and service delivery mechanisms, as well as road safety related targets in the 2030 Agenda, while fostering multisectoral and multistakeholder collaboration that includes the efforts of academia, the private sector, professional associations and civil society, including national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, and encouraging further partnership activities and initiatives, such as the Global Road Safety Partnership, hosted by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and those of other non-governmental organizations, as well as victims’ organizations, youth organizations and the media; 29. Requests the United Nations system, including the regional commissions, the World Health Organization and other relevant United Nations agencies, to support Member States, upon their request, in applying voluntary global performance targets for road safety when appropriate; 30. Requests the World Health Organization to continue to monitor, through its global status reports on road safety, progress towards the achievement of the goals of the Decade of Action; 31. Requests the World Health Organization and the United Nations regional commissions to facilitate the organization of activities during 2019 f or the fifth United Nations Global Road Safety Week; 32. Invites all relevant stakeholders, international organizations, development banks and funding agencies, foundations, professional associations and private sector companies to scale up funding to support the implementation of measures required to meet the voluntary global performance targets; 33. Welcomes the establishment of the United Nations road safety trust fund to support progress towards achieving road safety-related Sustainable Development Goals and relevant global targets, and encourages all road safety stakeholders to contribute to the fund; 34. Stresses the need, in view of the approaching end, in 2020, of the Decade of Action, the target date of 2020 for the achievement of target 3.6 of Sustainable Development Goal 3 and the relevant road safety target dates set out in the 2030 Agenda, to define a new time frame for a reduction in road traffic deaths and injuries, taking into account the voluntary global performance targets for road saf ety risk factors and service delivery mechanisms; 35. Welcomes the offer by the Government of Sweden to host the third high level global conference on road safety, to be held in 2020, building on the work on the first United Nations Global Road Safety Week done in Muscat in 2007, the Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety, held in Moscow in 2009, and the Second Global High-level Conference on Road Safety, held in Brasilia in 2015, to bring together delegations of ministers and representatives dealin g with transport, health, education, safety and related traffic law enforcement issues and other relevant stakeholders in the interest of reducing or eliminating road traffic fatalities and serious injuries, reviewing progress in achieving the goals of the Decade of Action and the relevant targets of the 2030 Agenda and providing an opportunity for Member States to further discuss ways to achieve the goals of the Agenda so as to prepare a forward-looking declaration on the period leading up to 2030; 36. Recommends that a high-level meeting on improving global road safety be held, at an appropriate time after 2020, with a view to assessing the progress made in attaining the objectives of the road safety-related targets contained in the 2030 Agenda; 8/9 18-05866