The United Nations announces its support for Iraq in recovering its smuggled funds and combating cross-border corruption
The Deputy Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ghulam Mohammad Ishaqzai, expressed his readiness today, Friday, to remove the obstacles that prevent Iraq from recovering its smuggled funds.
The head of the Federal Integrity Commission (Mohammed Ali Al-Lami), according to a statement by the Integrity Commission received by (Al-Mada), stressed "the importance of cooperation with international organizations to recover Iraq's smuggled funds, indicating that corruption and the smuggling of its proceeds have become problems that cross borders and continents and require international cooperation to limit them.
During his meeting with (Ghulam Mohammad Ishaqzai), Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Iraq, Al-Lami praised the programs launched by the organizations affiliated with the United Nations and their assistance to Iraq in various fields after 2003; to overcome the problems and dilemmas left by the dictatorial regime and to support state institutions to advance them after the damage they suffered after the change, noting that Iraq is one of the first countries to join the United Nations and the treaties and agreements emanating from it, including the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
Al-Lami expressed his "hope that international organizations would help Iraq recover its funds that were looted before 2003, and for which binding resolutions were issued by the UN Security Council, pointing to the establishment of the Iraq Fund Recovery Fund to recover all financial rights of the Republic of Iraq that were obtained by others through illegal means; as a result of the misuse of the Oil for Food Program, the blockade, smuggling, economic sabotage, or exploitation of the sanctions imposed on Iraq; to achieve financial gains at the expense of the Iraqi people."
He stressed the need to implement international resolutions and restore Iraq's money, in order to invest it in the reconstruction process, build infrastructure and achieve development.
For his part, Ghulam Mohammad Ishaqzai, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, expressed his "readiness to overcome the obstacles that prevent Iraq from recovering its smuggled funds, and to continue cooperating with the Iraqi oversight agencies to hold workshops and seminars to develop their staff and increase their expertise in the field of preventing, combating, and prosecuting corruption perpetrators."
He praised "the pioneering experiences of the Iraqi Integrity Commission, stressing the importance of establishing strategic partnerships with the Commission based on the experiences gained by the organizations affiliated with the United Nations in dealing with international files in various parts of the world. link
