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GUATEMALA COMMUNICATES ITS CONSENT TO RECEIVE ON-SITE VISIT OF THE OAS ANTICORRUPTION MECHANISM 

Guatemala joins other countries from Central America in granting its consent to receive an on-site visit from a team of the Mechanism for Follow-up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC). This represents the second time that Guatemala has granted such consent, having also done so for the Fourth Round of Review of the Mechanism.

In this regard, from April 16 to 18, 2013, Guatemala received its first on-site visit from the Mechanism.  The successful outcomes from that visit are contained in the report for Guatemala adopted by the MESICIC Committee of Experts for the Fourth Round, which concludes in March 2015.

For this reason, Guatemala, through its diplomatic representation to the OAS, once again formalized its consent to the Technical Secretariat of MESICIC to receive an on-site visit as part of the review process for the Fifth Round of the Mechanism.

In this Fifth Round, which is to begin shortly, the MESICIC will review, among others, the progress made by the States Parties with respect to systems of government hiring, procurement of goods and services, and protecting those who, in good faith, report acts of corruption. Implementation of other provisions of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption will also be reviewed.

Chile, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, the United States, and Uruguay have also formally expressed their consent to these visits.

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.

Edition N° 207 - February 2015

What is the MESICIC?

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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