OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports Kyrgyzstan’s efforts to join the Group of States against Corruption
STRASBOURG, 17 MARCH 2016 - The OSCE Centre in Bishkek supported the participation of the Kyrgyz delegation at the 71st Plenary and Working Group Sessions of the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) in Strasbourg, France.
The key purpose of the trip is to facilitate Kyrgyzstan’s accession to GRECO which will allow Kyrgyzstan to fight corruption by monitoring compliance with the Council of Europe anti-corruption standards through a dynamic process of mutual evaluation and peer pressure. It will help Kyrgyzstan to identify deficiencies in national anti-corruption policies, prompting the necessary legislative, institutional and practical reforms.
“We support the Kyrgyz Government and the General Prosecutor's Office, in particular, on the accession of Kyrgyzstan to the anti-corruption conventions of the Council of Europe and in assisting the government in implementing the 2015-2017 State Strategy against Corruption by ensuring the participation of relevant government agencies in GRECO’s working groups and plenary meetings,” said Sergey Kapinos, Head of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek.
The Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) was established in 1999 by the Council of Europe to monitor States’ compliance with the organisation’s anti-corruption standards. It provides a platform for the sharing of best practice in the prevention and detection of corruption.
The trip took place as part of an anti-corruption project of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek’s Economic and Environmental Programme.