FIA Foundation takes road safety message to Geneva UN institutions
28/12/2003
From left: Fuad Al-Hinai, UN Ambassador of Oman; Dr Lee Jong-wook, Director General, WHO; Wahid Al Kharusi, Sultanate of Oman; David Ward, Director General, FIA Foundation
The FIA Foundation has rounded off a busy half year in 2003 with a road safety visit to UN institutions in Geneva. An FIA Foundation proposal for introducing a UN road safety task force was tabled at the July meeting of the Traffic Safety Working Party of the UN Economic Commission for Europe. This meeting, which brings together road safety experts from governments across Europe and includes delegates from the USA, Japan and Russia, also heard from Oman’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Fuad Al-Hinai. The Ambassador recently secured a UN General Assembly resolution recognising the scale of the road safety crisis facing the developing world, and is pressing for greater concerted action by the international community.