On this date in 2003, delegates met in Merida,
Mexico, to finalize and sign the treaty against corruption, at a
United Nations sponsored convention.
In the last year, over 110 countries have signed on to
the Convention and nine have ratified it. Ratificiation by 30
Member States is necessary for the Convention to enter into
force.
...
The Convention must come into force as soon as possible to provide
the legal framework for countries to criminalize corrupt practices,
as well as to cooperate to deny safe havens to corrupt officials
and to help each other recover illicitly acquired
assets.
International
Anti-Corruption Day - 2004
To remind us, the BBC has an article today,
Nations mark
anti-corruption day, in which Mark Gregory, a
business
reporter, writes, without a touch of irony:
[The World Bank] says corruption takes place in rich
nations as well as poor ones.
To highlight the scale of the problem and efforts to fight it, the
UN initiated the anti-corruption day.
As they say in quantum chromodynamics, 'truth is stranger than
fiction.'