International Anti-Corruption Day

We move to the next item on the order of business. Dear colleagues, Thursday, December 9, marks the eighteenth International Anti-Corruption Day, whose ultimate purpose is to raise awareness of this problem, which affects every sector of our societies, by promoting messages, campaigns and actions that highlight the importance of preventing and fighting corruption at the international level, and by making known the valuable role of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption and the United Nations Convention against Corruption in this process.

All the states represented here are Parties to the Inter-American Convention against Corruption, thereby recognizing that international cooperation against corruption, and its strengthening, go to the essence of the inter-American system and are without doubt a hemispheric priority, as the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) resolved at its last regular session when it reaffirmed the commitment of Member States to prevent and confront corruption decisively, to promote transparency in public administration and in public-private relations, and accountability, and to keep advancing in the effective implementation of the recommendations of the Mechanism for Follow-Up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC).