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Nations Road Safety Collaboration as a consultative mechanism whose members
provide Governments and civil society with good practice guidelines to support
action to tackle the major road safety risk factors and support their implementation,
Recognizing the work of the United Nations regional commissions and their
subsidiary bodies in increasing their road safety activities and advocating increased
political commitment to road safety, and in this context welcoming the conclusions
and recommendations of the project “Improving global road safety: setting regional
and national road traffic casualty reduction targets”, implemented by the United
Nations regional commissions to assist low- and middle-income countries in setting
and achieving road traffic casualty reduction targets,
Acknowledging the Ministerial Declaration on Violence and Injury Prevention
in the Americas signed by the Ministers of Health of the Americas during the
Ministerial Meeting on Violence and Injury Prevention in the Americas, held in
Mérida, Mexico, on 14 March 2008, the Doha Declaration and other outcomes of
the workshop on building the Arab Mashreq road safety partnership organized by
the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia in Doha on 21 and
22 October 2008, 2 the conclusions and recommendations of the Economic
Commission for Europe conference on the theme “Improving Road Traffic Safety in
South-Eastern Europe: Setting Regional and National Road Traffic Casualty
Reduction Targets”, held in Halkida, Greece, on 25 and 26 June 2009, the workshop
on setting regional and national road traffic casualty reduction targets in the
Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia region organized by the
Commission, in collaboration with the United Arab Emirates National Authority for
Transportation, in Abu Dhabi on 16 and 17 June 2009, the conference on the theme
“Make Roads Safe Africa” organized by the Economic Commission for Africa in
Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, on 8 July 2009, the Ministerial
Declaration on Improving Road Safety in Asia and the Pacific, adopted at the
Ministerial Conference on Transport organized by the Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Busan, Republic of Korea, from 6 to 11
November 2006, 3 and the recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting on
Improving Road Safety organized by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia
and the Pacific in Bangkok from 2 to 4 September 2009, noting, in particular, the
usefulness of compiling guidelines outlining best practices in road safety
improvement in the region, as well as the outcomes of expert group meetings on
improving road safety organized by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia
and the Pacific in 2008 and 2009,
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Acknowledging also a number of other important international efforts on road
safety, including the report of the International Transport Forum of the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development entitled Towards Zero: Ambitious Road
Safety Targets and the Safe System Approach, the International Conference on Road
Safety at Work, held in Washington, D.C., from 16 to 18 February 2009, and the
conference on the theme “Road Safety at Work”, held in Dublin on 15 June 2009,
which highlighted the importance of fleet safety and the important role of the
private sector in addressing driving behaviour concerns among their workers,
Noting all national and regional initiatives to raise awareness of road safety
issues,
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See E/ESCWA/EDGD/2008/5.
E/ESCAP/63/13, chap. IV.