Councillor Irini Charalambidou, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE CSCE), participated yesterday in a meeting of the Assembly's Bureau in Copenhagen.
Ms. Charalambidou, in her capacity as Special Representative of the Assembly on Combating Corruption, informed the members of the Bureau about the hosting by the House of Representatives of a congress of the CoE. OSCE, entitled "Fighting Corruption - Defending Democracy", on 27 and 28 May 2022. The Cypriot MP noted the participation of distinguished speakers from international organisations and other bodies responsible for anti-corruption issues, such as the World Bank, GRECO, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Transparency International, as well as senior OSCE officials.
Moreover, during the presentation by the Rapporteur of the Committee on Economics, Science, Technology and Environment of a draft of his report, which will be discussed and adopted, together with a relevant resolution, at the next Annual Session of the OSCE CSC, next July, Ms. Charalambidou expressed satisfaction with the special emphasis given to the issue of the fight against corruption, an issue that, as she pointed out, remains of critical importance. Ms Charalambidou underlined the important contribution of international parliamentary organisations in promoting convergence on anti-corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing issues. She stressed the need to strengthen the political will to implement the commitments made in the field of good governance at national level and, consequently, to achieve even better results in the fight against corruption.
(MB/IC)
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