Africa-Press – Angola. The Secretary of State for the Interior, José Bamokina Zau, reaffirmed this Thursday, in New York, the commitment of the Angolan Executive to reduce mortality rates from road accidents.
José Bamokina Zau was speaking at the UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on Road Safety on the theme: “The 2030 horizon for road safety: Ensuring a decade of action and achievement”.
Speaking in the plenary segment, he presented the actions implemented by the Executive under the National Road Safety Strategy 2019-2022, in line with the recommendations of the WHO and the UN.
Despite the constraints resulting from the economic and financial recession, he said that it was possible to implement some important actions, with emphasis on the approval of several complementary diplomas to the road code, including the Road Plan of Angola, which constitutes an important instrument to allow the identification of all the road network, characterize the categories and extent of roads, manage them, taking into account the decentralization of competences.
The Secretary of State for the Interior also highlighted the construction of infrastructures equipped with state-of-the-art technologies to improve the mechanisms for evaluating candidates for legal driving licenses, as well as for the implementation of mandatory technical vehicle inspection centers.
He also referred to the training and capacity building component of the Traffic Police in matters of prevention and road safety.
Bamokina Zau informed the plenary about the Executive’s actions aimed at reducing road accidents, with the implementation of the Integrated Center for Public Security (CISP), equipped with video surveillance systems.
In his speech, he reiterated Angola’s commitment to continue to improve road safety throughout its territory, with a view to achieving the goals of the decade of Action (2020-2030), within the scope of the sustainable development objectives proposed by the UN and the African Union Agenda 2063.
The Angolan delegation headed by Secretary of State for the Interior also includes the deputy permanent representative of the Angolan Mission to the UN in New York, João Gimolieca, defense attaché, Colonel Custódio Livulu, among others.
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