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SURINAME RECEIVES ON-SITE VISIT OF THE OAS ANTICORRUPTION MECHANISM
(MESICIC)
From
April 1 – 3, 2013,
The Commission was composed of María Soledad Machuca Vidal, Deputy
Attorney-General of the Attorney General’s Office of Paraguay; Camila
Colares Bezerra, General Coordinator of Agreements and International
Cooperation of the Office of the Comptroller General of Brazil; Márcia
Luciana Dantas, of the Procurator General’s Office of Brazil; Carlos
Fernando dos Santos Lima, Regional Procurator of Brasil and Deputy
Secretary of International Cooperation; and Tiago Santos Faria,
Procedural Analist of the Procurator General’s Office of Brazil, who
represented their countries before the Mechanism. They were supported by
the General Secretariat of the OAS in the visit, through its
During the three days of work, the members of the Commission met with
representatives of the High Court, the Office
of the Attorney General, the Central National Accountant’s Agency
(CLAD), as well as the Ministry of Justice and Police and
representatives of the National Assembly, in order to obtain
objective and complete information and reveal potential difficulties in
the implementation of the Inter-American Convention. It also provided an
opportunity to facilitate the obtaining of information related to best
practices, and provided
The Commission also had the opportunity to meet with organizations from
civil society and the private sector, professional associations,
academics and researchers, in order to address issues on conflicts of
interest; systems for declaring income, assets, and liabilities; access
to public information; civil society participation mechanisms in the
public administration; and the work of oversight bodies for the
prevention, detection, prosecution and punishment of acts of corruption.
The results of this visit forms part of the review process that is
currently being carried out by the Committee of Experts of the MESICIC,
and which will conclude with the adoption of the Suriname country report
by the Committee at its next plenary meeting to be held in September
2014, in Washington DC at OAS Headquarters.
The MESICIC is a cooperation mechanism between States, with the
participation of civil society organizations, established within the
framework of the OAS, in which the legal/institutional framework of each
country is reviewed for suitability with the Inter-American Convention
against Corruption as well as the objective results achieved therein.
The incorporation of on-site visits as a stage and integral part of the
MESICIC review process represents an innovative and pioneering
initiative in the context of the OAS, especially for a peer review
mechanism and the importance of the issues it addresses.
For more information on the MESICIC, please visit the
Anti-Corruption Portal of the Americas.
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Edition N° 176 - April 2014
The Mechanism For Follow-up on the
Implementation of the Inter-American
Convention against Corruption, known as MESICIC for its Spanish acronym, is a tool to
support the development of the Inter-American
Convention against Corruption through
cooperation between States Parties.
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