(E-075/01)
March 30, 2001OAS PROMOTE FULL RATIFICATION OF A ANTI-CORRUPTION TREATY
Five years after adopting the Inter-American Convention against Corruption, the OAS has issued a progress report on the legal cooperation it has been pursuing to promote the ratification, implementation and application of the treaty by the countries of the Hemisphere.
The OAS Department of Legal Cooperation and Information had been carrying out certain projects aimed at promoting implementation of the Convention through a program adopted by the Organization's General Assembly.
The projects include support for bringing in line with the OAS Convention national criminal laws of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Peru. For 2001, the OAS proposes to organize national conferences on preventive measures--in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
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