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CYTA continues to educate thousands of young people in Cyprus and to cultivate road safety awareness, thereby honouring its signature to the European Road Safety Charter by which, in April 2004, the Organisation committed itself to contributing to the European goal of halving the number of road fatalities by 2010.

CYTA’s decision to make a substantial contribution to the endeavours of the whole of Europe and of Cyprus in particular to do something about the serious problem of road safety was turned into action, through the organisation of specialist seminars aimed at army conscripts and at graduating Lyceum and Technical School students, suitably adapted to each group. It is not by chance that CYTA has decided to focus on cultivating road safety awareness among young people in particular, in collaboration with the Ministries of Defence, Education & Culture, since they represent a significant percentage of the total number of traffic accident victims in Cyprus. CYTA’s work on this problem is being promoted on the EU’s relevant website.

In the context of CYTA’s contribution, seminars were successfully held for some 8.000 graduating Lyceum and Technical School students across the island during the academic year 2005-2006, a fact also confirmed by a survey.

At the same time, CYTA continues to hold seminars on the subject for its own personnel – among whom traffic accidents have fallen by 50% over the past two years – and for army conscripts as part of the Organisation’s contribution which began in 2004 and which has educated thousands of young people since then. It is worth noting that, according to statistics announced recently during an event organised by the Ministry of Defence and the National Guard, the number of injuries and deaths to soldiers in traffic accidents has been falling over the past two years. CYTA, which was honoured by the Minister of Defence at the event for its contribution to the issue, takes this opportunity to express its pleasure at the positive messages coming from the army and hopes that its contribution to the issue of road safety will continue to make a substantial difference as part of the united effort being made by the whole of Cyprus to achieve the common European goal.

CYTA Public Relations
June 28 2006