Experts insist on fighting corruption [Archives:2006/938/Local News]

SANA'A, April 15 ) At a special workshop last Wednesday, experts insisted on fighting corruption, enhancing means of monitoring to eliminate corrupt individuals and establishing the principle of integrity and good governance to protect public funds.

The three-day workshop recommended establishing a complete and effective system to fight corruption and setting up a mechanism for this issue in compliance with relevant international agreements.

The workshop recommended the presidency office, the Attorney General's office, the Ministry of Labor and the Central Organization for Control and Audit (COCA) apply the law concerned with fulfilling financial obligations and amend the Ministers Law in cooperation with the German Organization for Technical Cooperation (GTZ).

The workshop emphasized the need to qualify officials of specialized authorities in judicial, administrative, financial and legal fields to protect public funds. It demanded referring reports on corruption to judicial parties and completing construction of public fund courts and prosecutions.

Experts and specialists from various concerned bodies, as well as parliamentary experts, discussed many work papers at the workshop. They discussed issues related to legal and judicial protection of public funds, roles of concerned courts and COCA in protecting public funds, as well as leadership's role in fighting corruption.

Workshop participants called for developing concerned courts and prosecutions and building monitoring authorities' capacities to protect public funds.
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