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VENEZUELA COMMUNICATES ITS CONSENT TO RECEIVE ON-SITE VISIT OF THE
OAS ANTICORRUPTION MECHANISM
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, through its
Permanent Mission to the OAS, formally notified its
consent to receive an on-site visit of the Mechanism for
Follow-Up on the Implementation of the Inter-American
Convention against Corruption (MESICIC), as part of the
of the review process for the Fifth Round.
This is the second time that Venezuela has granted its
consent to receive an on-site visit from a team from the
MESICIC.
The first visit took place from September 30 to October
2, 2014, during the Fourth Round of Review of the
Mechanism. The results of that visit form part of the
country report for
Venezuela adopted by the MESICIC Committee of Experts in
March 2015.
For the Fifth Round, the MESICIC will review, among
others, the progress made by the States with respect to
transparency in systems of government hiring and in the
procurement of goods and services, as well as in the
protection for those who, in good faith, report acts of
corruption. Implementation of other provisions of the Inter-American
Convention against Corruption will
also be reviewed.
To date, in addition to Venezuela, the following
countries have formally expressed their consent to
receive on-site visits for the Fifth Round: Antigua and
Barbuda, Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada,
Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Jamaica, Haiti,
Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname,
Trinidad and Tobago, the United States and Uruguay. The
MESICIC Technical Secretariat expects to receive similar
notifications from other States, which have reported
that they are taking the necessary steps domestically to
formalize their consent.
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° 231 - March 2015
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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