The Gulf Cooperation Council members are seeking to entrench a culture of honesty and integrity among youths through a proposed joint public awareness and civic-education enhancement program, a step that introduces a new phase of cooperation in the fight against corruption.
The proposal was made on Tuesday during the sixth meeting of the agencies responsible for oversight and fighting corruption in the GCC states.
Dr. Harib bin Saeed al-Amimi, the United Arab Emirates’ State Audit Institution president, chaired the meeting that was also attended by GCC Secretary-General Nayef al-Hajraf.
The meeting looked into several issues regarding cooperation between the Gulf states on oversight and fighting corruption. These issues had been raised by the committees concerned and the anti-corruption agencies’ representatives in their fifth preparatory meeting.
The most prominent of the issues discussed were: guideline law for the protection of public funds in the GCC, as well as the guideline code of conduct, and updating the exchange of experience between anti-corruption agencies in the GCC. They also tackled proposing a joint Gulf awareness program in education dedicated to oversight and fighting corruption and educating youths on the principles of promoting integrity and fighting corruption.
They also adopted the Abu Dhabi anti-corruption declaration and the first anti-corruption ministerial communique of the G20 under the leadership of Saudi Arabia as a guiding document, as well as the recommendations of the eighth session of the Conference of the States Parties – the main policymaking body of the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
