Anti-corruption work reviewed

THE country has reviewed its anti-corruption work after the guardian of the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) visited this week.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said that UNCAC came to review their implementation of Chapters II and V (preventive measures) and (asset recovery) under the convention’s implementation mechanism.
“The experts from Burundi and Kyrgyzstan are participating with the support of UNODC as secretariat of the process amongst others.
“The participating PNG stakeholders are the Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac), the departments of Justice and Attorney General, Prime Minister and National Executive Council, the Public Service Commission, the Ombudsman Commission, the Financial Analysis and Supervision Unit and the National Fraud and Anti-Corruption Division of the Royal PNG Constabulary, including Transparency International PNG,” it said.
The discussion was based on the successes and challenges in implementing the UNCAC in the country.
“This is an opportunity for PNG to showcase its anti-corruption work and a useful exchange of experiences for me,” attorney-general’s office of Kyrgyzstan deputy head of the international legal cooperation division Talant Mamyrov said.
Southeast Asia and the Pacific UNODC anti-corruption adviser Annika Wythes said the UNCAC review process enabled PNG, which ratified UNCAC in 2007, to participate in a peer process to benchmark what had been achieved and what still needed to be done to strengthen anticorruption work in the country.
UNODC has been supporting the Government and Icac in countering corruption through the partnership with UNODC and UN Development Programme, with funding from European Union.