From May 6 to 12, 2019, Ukraine will join the 5th Global Road Safety Week of the UN, this year’s motto of which is «Leadership

in Road Safety». These days Ukraine will continue the Road Safety Week, which will host a series of activities aimed at overcoming the difficult situation on the roads of the country. They will be attended by representatives of government agencies, public organizations.

A press conference on the occasion of the 5th Global RoadSafety Week will be held on May, 6.

 The press conference will be attended by:

 Pavlo Hobzey ˗ First Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine;

 Artem Bidenko ˗ State Secretary of the Information Policy Ministry of Ukraine;

 Oleksiy Biloshitsky ˗ First Deputy Chief of the Department of Patrol Police of Ukraine;

 Mykhailo Nonyak ˗ Head of the State Service for Transport Safety;

 Volodymyr Shevchenko ˗ General Director of Motor Transport Insurance BU;

 Yuriy Chorny ˗ coordinator of the Road Safety Week in Ukraine, director of the Kyiv Interregional Branch of the State Enterprise

“Ukrainian Research Institute of Transport Medicine» Ministry of Health of Ukraine, WHO National Coordinator of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine on Road Traffic Safety.

Venue: IA UKRINFORM, Kyiv, B. Khmelnitsky, 8/16 St.

Beginning at 10:00 am.

The All-Ukrainian Road Safety Week is held with the assistance of the Government of Ukraine, profile committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, local self-government bodies. Traditionally, the co-organizers of the Week are the International Charity Fund «Aid to the Victims of Accidents» and the Motor (Transport) Insurance Bureau of Ukraine.  

As partners of the Week, the following are being joined: Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, Ministry of Education and Science of

Ukraine, State Service of Ukraine for Transport Safety, Department of Patrol Police of Ukraine, National Academy of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, NCC «AsMAP Ukraine», representatives of public and business communities, which are

concerned with traffic safety issues, other interested agencies and organizations, representatives of the public and mass media.

 Reference:

The Road Safety Week is held twice a year within the framework of the Decade of Road Safety 2011-2020, proclaimed by the UN

General Assembly Resolution No. 64/255 of 10.05.2010, with the aim of increasing road safety in Ukraine.

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