Nazaha aims to extend cooperation with international academy
VIENNA: The visiting Head of Kuwait Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha), Consultant Abdulrahman Al-Nemsh, affirmed Friday the authority’s efforts to extend cooperation efforts with the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA). On sidelines of the seventh session of the meetings of the Assembly of Parties in IACA, Consultant Al-Nemsh told KUNA that the authority is keen to strengthen its cooperation with the academy in order to acquire expertise and improve technical capabilities.
Nazaha seeks to conclude a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the academy to strengthen future cooperative efforts through development and availability of training programs related to the areas of prevention and anti-corruption in line with the latest methods of scientific and research knowledge.
Regarding the seventh session meetings, Al-Nemsh pointed out that several topics were discussed, including the election of the members of the Bureau of the Assembly of Parties. Kuwait has joined the agreement to establish IACA in 2015 and in cooperation with the academy organized a regional training and education session last year. The training was the first of its kind in the Middle East and over 13 different nationalities participated in it. The meeting of the Assembly of Parties, which kicked off on Thursday, unanimously elected Kuwait as a Rapporteur of the Bureau for the Asian Group in the Academy for a year.
A senior official at the IACA lauded the tremendous level of cooperation with the State of Kuwait, hoping that the two sides would maintain and continue collaborating in the future. On the sideline of the Seventh Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), the IACA’s Dean and Executive Secretary Martin Kreutner said that the two sides have been working on bolstering ties since they began cooperating six years ago.
IACA’s officials continuous visits to Kuwait, the holding of the first regional anti-corruption training session in the GCC country, as well as Kuwait’s efforts in countering corruption were crystal indications of the strength of the relations between Kuwaiti and IACA relations said the official. Kreutner added that the high level of political and social advocacy in this year’s gathering was tremendous, affirming that it would contribute to the efforts against corruption worldwide. Dialogue amongst IACA members and the global community as a whole will ensure better management of issues connected with corruption, said the agency senior official.