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We, the undersigned members of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration, have been looking forward to the High-Level Meeting on Global Road Safety, set to take place 30 June 2022\u20131 July 2022, with an equal sense of excitement and hope, and with the expectation that it could be a catalytic moment for real leadership, meaningful allocation of resources, and committed implementation of actions to meet the 2030 road safety target.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Increasingly, however, our optimism is being severely challenged.<\/em><\/p>\n For more than a decade, the Russian Federation has played a constructive leading role at the United Nations on the global road safety agenda. It is the lead facilitator of the Declaration for the High-level Meeting. However, the aggression initiated by the Russian Federation in Ukraine and subsequent UN and Member State sanctions against the Russian Federation causes us great concern regarding whether a successful Declaration can be constructively negotiated and therefore if the objective of the High-level Meeting to secure a decade of action and delivery can be successfully achieved.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n In the current political context, the Russian Federation\u2019s legitimacy to engage Member States in the constructive dialogue needed to achieve a meaningful Declaration draft has been seriously eroded. If Member States choose not to participate in the negotiations as a result of the Russian Federation\u2019s facilitation role, as a number of them have already indicated, the powerful text and meeting outcome that is so critically needed to give momentum to the second Decade of Action will be tragically missed.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n For the sake of the people who use the world\u2019s roads and as civil society, academic, and corporate voices for road safety around the world, we call for the High-level Meeting to be postponed or for another Member State to replace the Russian Federation as facilitator.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n We must find a way forward. Without it, we are concerned that the vital opportunity to make a real change for road safety that will save the lives of many thousands of people around the world every year may be missed.<\/em><\/p>\n Signed by the following members of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC)<\/p>\n Lotte Brondum Jorge Viegas Jeffrey Witte<\/strong> Margie Peden Floor Lieshout<\/strong> Cathy Silberman Rochelle Sobel Rob McInerney Emma MacLennan Claire Hoyland Jeanne Picard Mahaut Sigrid de Vries Filippo Randi Geert van Waeg Donna Price Mar\u00eda Fernanda Rodr\u00edguez Jagnoor Jagnoor Gary A. Smith Paul Schroeder Ingrid Johnston Mary Williams OBE Jill Warren Antonio Avenoso Claudia Adriazola Nino Paichadze David Ward\u00a0 Saul Billingsley [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 27 members of the UN Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC), including iRAP, have made a joint statement regarding the High-level Meeting on Global Road Safety to be held 30 June\u20131 July […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":52956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" 27 members of the UN Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC), including iRAP, have made a joint statement regarding the High-level Meeting on Global Road Safety to be held 30 June\u20131 July 2022.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[341,761,760,785,252,783,784],"class_list":["post-53744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-news","tag-decade-of-action","tag-global-meeting","tag-high-level-meeting","tag-new-york","tag-un","tag-unhlm","tag-unrsc"],"yoast_head":"\n
<\/strong>Executive Director, Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety<\/p>\n
<\/strong>President, Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme<\/p>\n
Executive Director, Amend<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Head Global Injury, The George Institute for Global Health\u00a0<\/p>\n
Executive Director, YOURS<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Executive Director, Association for Safe International Road Travel\u00a0<\/p>\n
<\/strong>President, Association for Safe International Road Travel\u00a0<\/p>\n
<\/strong>CEO, International Road Assessment Programme<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Director General, EASST<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Coordinator, FIRE AID and International Development<\/p>\n
<\/strong>President, FICVI<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Secretary General, CLEPA<\/p>\n
<\/strong>President, FEVR<\/p>\n
<\/strong>President, International Federation of Pedestrians<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Chair, International Road Victims\u2019 Partnership<\/p>\n
<\/strong>President, Fundaci\u00f3n Gonzalo Rodr\u00edguez<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Program Head- Injury, The George Institute for Global Health.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>President, Child Injury Prevention Alliance<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Chair, World Rescue Organisation<\/p>\n
<\/strong>CEO, Australasian College of Road Safety<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Chief Executive, Brake<\/p>\n
<\/strong>CEO, European Cyclists\u2019 Federation<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Executive Director, European Transport Safety Council (ETSC)\u00a0<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Urban Mobility Acting Director, World Resources Institute (WRI)<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Assistant Research Professor & Associate Director, Center on Commercial Determinants of Health, GWSPH<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Executive President, Towards Zero Foundation<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Executive Director, FIA Foundation<\/p>\n