Peru joins Convention on Road Traffic
Geneva, 12 October 2006 -- Peru has become the sixty-fifth Contracting
Party to the UN Convention on Road Traffic.
The Convention on Road Traffic, which was done in Vienna in 1968, regulates
all facets of driving behaviour, such as speed and distance between vehicles,
intersections and obligation to give way. Moreover, it details the technical
conditions for the admission of vehicles and drivers to international traffic
and provides models of domestic and international driving permits.
Together with the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, the Convention
on Road Traffic provides Governments with a harmonized legal and technical
basis for their national highway codes and ensures a high level of road
safety in the countries that implement them. Though elaborated and kept
up to date by the UNECE in Geneva, the two Conventions are global in character
with Contracting Parties from all continents.
Peru’s accession to this Convention is a sign of the growing awareness
of countries throughout the world about the importance of improving road
safety, following UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/60/5.
In this Resolution, the General Assembly stressed the importance of the
improvement of international road safety norms and welcomed the work of
the UNECE Working Party on Road Traffic Safety (WP.1) in the elaboration
of the amendments to these Conventions. It also encouraged Member
States to adhere to those Conventions, in order to ensure a high level
of road safety in their countries.
Other Contracting Parties to the Convention in the Latin America and
Caribbean region are Bahamas, Brazil, Cuba, Guyana and Uruguay.
For further information regarding the international legal instruments
in the field of road traffic and road safety please contact:
José Capel Ferrer, Director, or
Marie-Noëlle Poirier
UNECE Transport Division
Palais des Nations
CH - 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0) 22 917 2400, 917 3259
Fax: +41 (0) 22 917 0039
E-mail: [email protected]
[email protected]
Ref: ECE/TRANS/06/N09