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General Kyrianov Awarded FIA World Prize
The FIA Academy has awarded its annual World Prize for Road Safety, the Environment and Mobility to General Victor Kyrianov, President of the Russian Automobile Federation, for his outstanding contribution to the promotion of road safety.
The award is given for exceptional merit or endeavour by individuals or organisations involved in motoring and mobility. The FIA Academy, which is made up of eight senior members of the FIA and its national automobile clubs, gave the award to Kyrianov primarily for his leading work in organising the first ever Global Ministerial Summit on Road Safety, which takes place in Moscow on 19 November.
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The silver and crystal trophy was presented to General Kyrianov by FIA President Jean Todt at a meeting of FIA Clubs in the run-up to the Ministerial event. The Ministerial is calling on governments from around the world to agree plans for a Decade of Action which could save five million lives on the world's roads.
FIA President Jean Todt said:
"General Victor Kyrianov is a strong and influential supporter of road safety both in Russia and around the world. He spoke at the first ever UN General Assembly debate on road safety in April 2004, and again in March 2008, and is an active member of the Commission for Global Road Safety.
"The development of this first ever global ministerial summit would not have been possible without the foresight, leadership and effort of General Kyrianov and his colleagues at the Road Traffic Inspectorate of the Russian Federation. His work is more than worthy of this recognition."
Past recipients of the FIA World Prize include German company Bosch for its work in eSafety and tyre group Bridgestone for its road safety campaign work.
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