The Make Roads Safe campaign’s call for a UN ministerial summit on road safety is gaining support.
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi has written to Rosario Alessi, Chairman of the FIA Foundation and the Italian member of the Commission for Global Road Safety, offering his support for a global ministerial meeting, which is a key recommendation of the Commission’s ‘Make Roads Safe’ report. Meanwhile UK International Development Secretary Hilary Benn MP has written to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan also supporting the proposal.
The issue will be discussed at the United Nation’s Inland Transport Committee in February 2007, after an influential UN body, the Working Party for Road Traffic Safety, agreed to refer the proposal. Support by the Inland Transport Committee would be the first step towards getting a UN resolution endorsing such a conference.