| The pledge was given by Wahid Al-Kharusi, Chairman of Oman’s National Program for Road Traffic Injuries, who was speaking at the 2nd UN Global Road Safety Stakeholders Forum, organised at the United Nations in Geneva as part of UN Global Road Safety Week.
Al-Kharusi said: “Our government is intending to put forward for adoption a 5th UN resolution on road safety to request a UN Ministerial Meeting in 2010. This will ask for a road safety convention. I earnestly request your support and that of your countries to support the request of Oman and to vote with Oman at the United Nations for the UN Ministerial Meeting on Road Safety.”
Also speaking at the UN Forum, Saul Billingsley, Deputy Director of the FIA Foundation, said: “With this confirmation that Oman is to seek and possibly to host a UN Ministerial conference on road safety, it is very important that all FIA automobile clubs contact their governments to urge support for a UN Ministerial when the UN General Assembly meets in November”.
The decision by the Government of Oman follows a UN road safety meeting in the country earlier this year involving automobile clubs from the Middle East, where the FIA Foundation promoted the Make Roads Safe campaign.
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