UNECE PUSHES COMMON ROAD SIGNS INTO EAST

BY KEITH NUTHALL THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has been successfully pushing the adoption of a 1968 convention harmonising road signs and signals into the former Soviet Union. Widely supported in western Europe, Kyrgyzstan has become the 54th contracting party to its Convention on Road Signs and Signals, leaving only Armenia and Azerbaijan to sign up in the ex-USSR. The UNECE hails the convention as a key road safety measure, prescribing the appearance of danger signs, priority signs, regulatory signs, informative signs and traffic ...


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