The 10th Plenary Meeting of the Committee of Experts of the MESICIC took place
December 11 - 16, 2006
at the OAS headquarters.
During the meeting, the Experts from each of the States Parties to the
Follow-up Mechanism considered the preliminary draft reports from the Second Round of Review for
Argentina, Paraguay, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Ecuador and Honduras. Among other items on the
agenda and
calendar, the Committee reviewed the results from the Second Meeting of the Conference
of States Parties to the MESICIC.
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The Second Meeting of the Conference of States Parties to the MESICIC, which took
place November 20-21, 2006, approved the new text of the
Inter-American Program of Cooperation to Fight
Corruption. This is a revised version of the original program adopted by the OAS General Assembly in 1997.
The Program sets out the general framework for activities that the member states, with the support of the
OAS General Secretariat, have decided to undertake in the fight against corruption in the Hemisphere.
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During a national workshop to create a Plan of Action to implement the recommendations from the First
Round of the MESICIC process, the
Vice President of Colombia reaffirmed the country’s commitment to fight
corruption. The workshop, held December 1 in Bogotá, included participants from government agencies,
the Attorney General’s office and civil society.
Colombia is one of four countries which participated in a
pilot project to implement the MESICIC recommendations.
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“This year’s 10th anniversary of the conclusion of the
Inter-American Convention against
Corruption is an important milestone. This multilateral framework against corruption and its monitoring
mechanism – or
MESICIC as it is known – play an important role ensuring that governments translate their
commitments into action,” Huguette Labelle, Chair of Transparency International, said at the OAS Lecture
Series of the Americas on November 28. Labelle lauded the OAS for steps it has taken to fight corruption,
including the adoption of the
Inter-American Convention against Corruption, and she called on the states
parties to implement all of the treaty’s requirements. “By doing so, they will reassure citizens across
the hemisphere that they are moving beyond words and paper and are acting against corruption.”
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