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OAS Anti-Corruption Experts to Analyze Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela

  March 19, 2010

A committee of anti-corruption experts of the Organization of American States (OAS) will meet from Monday, March 22, to Friday, March 26, at the Organization’s headquarters in Washington, DC, to analyze the implementation in Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela of the provisions of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption related to the denial of favorable tax treatment for payments made in violation of anti-corruption laws, the prevention of the bribery of domestic and foreign government officials, transnational bribery, illicit enrichment, and extradition.

The Committee of Experts of the Follow-Up Mechanism for Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC) will hold its Sixteenth Meeting to analyze, among other things, the legal and institutional framework of the five states and make specific recommendations for their improvement in those areas mentioned above, and, similarly, the Committee will evaluate the progress in implementing the recommendations that have been formulated to these countries in the two previous rounds.

The reports of these five countries will be available on the
Anti-Corruption Portal of the Americas. For more information on the MESICIC, please click here.

To see the event’s agenda, please click here.


WHAT: Sixteenth Meeting of the Committee of Experts of the Follow-Up Mechanism for Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC)

WHEN: Monday, March 22, to Friday, March 26, 2010

WHERE: Padilha Vidal Hall
Organization of American States
1889 F St. NW
Washington, DC 20006

Reference: AVI-083/10