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| Thursday, 18 March 2004 |
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Yesterday the Sri Lankan Cabinet broke new ground by ratifying the United Nations Convention against corruption. This makes Sri Lanka only the second country in the world to ratify the convention, the other being Kenya, a press release from the Office of the Government spokesman stated. The Ad hoc committee established by the General Assembly of the United Nations to carryout the work of the first United Nations Convention against corruption completed its negotiations on October 1st last year and this was passed by the United Nations on 31st October last year. Countries were given until 9th December, 2005 to sign the convention. Originally Sri Lanka expected to sign the convention at the 19th UN Convention in September 2004. Because the relevant authorities had completed their work ahead of time the Prime Minister instructed the permanent representative to the UN to sign the convention on 15th March, 2004. Over the past two years the Prime Minister has taken a number of initiatives to prevent corruption. Unfortunately his work has been impeded by the failure of the President to appoint the final member of the Bribery Commission. The ratification by the Sri Lankan Cabinet puts Sri Lanka in the forefront of the world battle to beat corruption. |
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