On May 18, Kazakhstan’s Almaty hosted the International Workshop ‘Enhancing Anti-Corruption Due Diligence & Collaboration in International Investment Projects’. Representatives of the Anti-Corruption Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan also took part in the workshop.

The workshop, organized by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, was attended by a number of international experts and representatives from Austria, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Mongolia, Iran, China, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey and Montenegro.

UNODC Regional Anti-Corruption Adviser delivered a presentation on ‘Anti-Corruption and Integrity in the Activities of the Investment Promotion Agency’, in which special emphasis was placed on the need to rely on close cooperation with the anti-corruption bodies of these organizations in foreign investment.

The importance of introducing into their experience the recommendations of UNODC and other international anti-corruption mechanisms (GRECO, Istanbul Action Plan) was also emphasized.

The workshop participants shared information about their national experience in combating corruption in international investment projects.

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