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| Politics 4/1/2008 10:41:00 PM |
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UNITED NATIONS, April 1 (KUNA) -- Kuwaiti Charge D'Affaires to UN Jassem
Al-Najem on Tuesday expressed satisfaction that the General Assembly adopted a
resolution on improving global road safety, saying it was timely.
The move highlights the need to increase awareness of the problem
nationally and internationally, Al-Najem told KUNA.
Kuwait, along with many Arab and Muslim countries, co-sponsored the
resolution adopted late Monday out of conviction that "the global epidemic"
(of road rage) already ranks with HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis as a
world major killer.
"Its death toll equals or exceeds that of wars," he explained.
The assembly also welcomed the Russian Federation's offer to host and
provide financial support for the first global high-level conference on road
safety, to be held next year.
The assembly encouraged Member States in the resolution, which was adopted
without a vote, to strengthen their commitments to road safety by observing
the annual World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims every November,
organizing global road safety weeks and encouraging fleet-owning organizations
in both the private and public sectors to develop and implement policies and
practices that would reduce road-crash risks.
The assembly heard from member states that road deaths are now the number
one killer of young people aging between 10 and 24 worldwide and that each
year and more than 1.2 million people are killed and 50 million injured.
Unless action is taken, more than twenty million lives could be lost from
2000-2015, with a doubling of the annual death rate by 2030, envoys told the
GA meeting.
Introducing the draft resolution, Oman's UN Permanent Representative Fuad
Al-Hinai, said Member States had unanimously emphasized that road traffic
injuries posed a global public health crisis requiring "an urgent national and
international action."
He recalled that last April, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the
Regional Commissions organized the First UN Global Road Safety Week to serve
as a platform for global, regional and national activities to raise awareness
regarding road safety issues.
Outlining the activities that had emanated from the Week, Al-Hinai said his
country enacted legislation to address road safety issues and established a
national road safety agency.
The Royal Oman Police organized and participated in the Gulf Cooperation
Council Road Safety Week and the Arab Road Safety Week.
Also training programmes in such areas as first aid and defensive driving
had been introduced for police, driving instructors, taxi drivers and public
transportation drivers, Al-Hinai went on to say.
He also introduced a report on global road safety, worked out by WHO,
providing an update on efforts to implement the GA recommendations, and
describing how collaborative efforts in the past two years had increased road
safety awareness nationally and internationally.
Victor Kiryanov, Head of the Department of Road Safety in the Russian
Federation's Ministry of Internal Affairs, told the assembly that road safety
was more important than ever and needed scrupulous international attention.
"Indeed, it was becoming an important item on the agenda of the United
Nations and other international organizations.
"United Nations data showed that almost 1.2 million people die from road
accidents and millions get injured or disabled every year," he said.
He explained that such injuries not only created socio-economic expenses
for victims and their families, but also placed an onerous burden on public
health services.
The annual costs associated with road traffic injuries worldwide amount to
hundreds of billions of dollars and continue to rise, Kiryanov added.
"It is vitally important to reduce the number of traffic injuries in order
to achieve socio-economic development, including the Millennium Development
Goals, and to allow ordinary people to feel safe and secure when on the road,"
he stressed. (end)
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مجلس الوزراء
اللجنة العليا للتحضير للاحتفال بالذكرى
الـ(50)
لاستقلال دولة الكويت و الذكرى الـ (20)
لعيد التحرير
اعـــــــــــــــــــلان
فى إطار الاستعدادات و الترتيبات الجارية للإعداد و التحضير للاحتفال
باليوبيل الذهبي للاستقلال و مرور
(20) عاما على تحرير دولة الكويت و انطلاقا من
حرص اللجنة العليا على إشراك كافة قطاعات الدولة فى الاحتفال بهاتين المناسبتين
الوطنيتين
يسر اللجنة الإعلامية المنبثقة عن اللجنة العليا دعوة من يرغب من مؤسسات و
شركات القطاع الخاص و الاتحادات التجارية و الاستثمارية للمشاركة في الأنشطة و
الفعاليات المقرر تنظيمها فى شهر فبراير من العام القادم 2011م
للاستفسار والتنسيق ومزيد من التفاصيل :
1- مكتب مقرر اللجنة الإعلامية:
هاتف: 22462289
فاكس: 22462296
2- البريد الإلكتروني:
kuwait5020@media.gov.kw
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