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Meeting with UN Regional Commissions Executive Secretaries

On 22 June 2020, the Special Envoy delivered remarks during an online meeting with the Executive Secretaries of the five UN Regional Commissions, Mss.es Rola Dashti (ESCWA), Alicia Bárcena Ibarra (ECLAC), Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana (ESCAP), Vera Songwe (UNECA) and Olga Algayerova (UNECE). 
 
He elaborated on the impact of Covid-19 crisis on transport, road safety and green mobility. He also discussed the importance of the Third Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety which marked the end of the Decade of Action and charted the way forward for the upcoming one.
 
The Special Envoy also called for support on the introduction and adoption of the next UN General Assembly Resolution on Improving Global Road Safety and then elaborated on the UNRSF projects, encouraging to actively raise their visibility and impact in the respective regions.