Vietnam is among 45 United Nations member countries which managed to slash the number of traffic-related deaths by more than 30 percent during the 2011-20 period, the National Traffic Safety Committee recently announced, citing a report by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The WHO’s Global status report on road safety 2023 was presented at a conference held within the framework of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC) Meeting at the UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on December 12-13, Khuat Viet Hung, executive vice-chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee, told reporters on Wednesday.

The WHO representative who presented the report at the conference extended congratulations to Vietnam for landing among the 45 UN member countries that decreased traffic-related deaths by over 30 percent between 2011 and 2020, said Hung, who attended the event.

The conference highlighted the main achievements of the global plan for the first UN Decade for Road Safety (2011-20), announced global road traffic death figures for 2021, and introduced changes in traffic safety policies of UN member countries, according to Giao Thong (Traffic) newspaper.  

According to the WHO’s calculations, Vietnam’s road traffic death rate declined from 25.4 per 100,000 people in 2010 to 17.7 per 100,000 people in 2021, a reduction of 43.5 percent.

Speaking at the conference, Hung discussed Vietnam’s efforts to impose and enforce traffic road safety regulations over the past decade, attributing the success of these efforts to the country’s political system and the leadership of the Party and the government. 

He also noted that Vietnam has plans to promulgate the Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety in the near future – a move which should allow it to perfect regulations on traffic safety and the handling of traffic violations.

Earlier on Monday, Hung represented Vietnam at the High-Level Consultative Committee meeting in preparation for the 4th Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety, scheduled to be held in Morocco on February 18 - 21, 2025 (GMCRS 2025).

The meeting proposed that Vietnam coordinate with the WHO in organizing a symposium on traffic safety for motorcyclists, which is expected to be presented at GMCRS 2025.

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