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Workshop in Dushanbe tackles money laundering
DUSHANBE 10 October 2003
DUSHANBE, 10 October 2003 - Combating money laundering and other means of financing terrorism topped the agenda of a workshop held by the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Dushanbe yesterday.
The goal of the event was to raise awareness on the technical and legislative aspects of money laundering and the financing of terrorism, to familiarize participants with legal and administrative tools to help in the fight against these phenomena, and to identify needs for further legislative development in this field.
"Money laundering is an issue of great concern for the world community, since it has deep consequences for national and international security", said Ambassador Yves Bargain, Head of the OSCE Centre.
Alikhon Huseinov, adviser to the Tajik President on economic affairs, said Tajikistan was willing to work on developing the legal framework necessary for combating money laundering. He also expressed his hope that the expertise provided by the international experts in the workshop would speed up the process of preparing and ratifying new laws in accordance with international conventions and standards.
The meeting is the sixth in a series of national workshops aimed at implementing an action programme endorsed at the international OSCE conference on security and stability in Central Asia held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, in December 2001.
Representatives from the Tajik government, various national institutions and international organizations as well as experts from Austria, Canada, Croatia, and the UN took part in the workshop.
The goal of the event was to raise awareness on the technical and legislative aspects of money laundering and the financing of terrorism, to familiarize participants with legal and administrative tools to help in the fight against these phenomena, and to identify needs for further legislative development in this field.
"Money laundering is an issue of great concern for the world community, since it has deep consequences for national and international security", said Ambassador Yves Bargain, Head of the OSCE Centre.
Alikhon Huseinov, adviser to the Tajik President on economic affairs, said Tajikistan was willing to work on developing the legal framework necessary for combating money laundering. He also expressed his hope that the expertise provided by the international experts in the workshop would speed up the process of preparing and ratifying new laws in accordance with international conventions and standards.
The meeting is the sixth in a series of national workshops aimed at implementing an action programme endorsed at the international OSCE conference on security and stability in Central Asia held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, in December 2001.
Representatives from the Tajik government, various national institutions and international organizations as well as experts from Austria, Canada, Croatia, and the UN took part in the workshop.