Kyrgyzstan Trying to Join Group of States Against Corruption

Kyrgyzstan trying to join Group of States against CorruptionBishkek (AKIpress) - The Kyrgyz delegation partook in the 71st Plenary and Working Group Sessions of the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) in Strasbourg, France with the support of the OSCE Center in Bishkek.

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...