Pakist-an has taken a leading role in the negotiating process for drafting a new UN convention against corruption, officials said here on Saturday.
Damn. There went that keyboard...
A large number of developing countries have expressed their full support for proposals made by Pakistan for addition and changes to the draft text. These proposals are aimed at developing a truly effective instrument which provides for the broader measure of international cooperation and mutual legal assistance aimed at preventing, detecting, investigating and prosecuting corruption at the international level. It will also facilitate the return and recovery of assets derived from the proceeds of corruption to the developing countries. The ad hoc committee entrusted by the general assembly to finalize a UN convention against corruption will be holding its fourth session in Vienna from Jan 13 to 24, 2003.
Ummm... Yeah. Okay. But if I was going to grab somebody to draft some anticorruption conventions, I think I'd probably ask Finland, or Denmark or even New Zealand to do it, rather than Pakland. You know — a country that doesn't have a reputation for endemic corruption, that hasn't had any governments tossed out for raiding the till lately. Though, on the other hand, I guess if anyone really, truly knows about corruption, it'd be Pakland... |