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Joint statement on commitment to fight corruption
On the occasion of the first anniversary of the signing of the United Nations
Convention against Corruption, a meeting was held in Washington, D.C. on 2 and
3 December 2004 of the African Development Bank’s Internal Audit Department,
the Asian Development Bank’s Anticorruption Unit, the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development’s Office of the Chief Compliance Officer, the
Inter-American Development Bank’s Office of Institutional Integrity, and the
World Bank’s Department of Institutional Integrity.
It was agreed to reaffirm the shared commitment to fight corruption in our
respective operations and projects, and to this end, to reiterate the
institutions’ commitment to protect its staff against reprisals arising from
the reporting in good faith of allegations of fraud, corruption, or other
misconduct to the designated authorities within our institutions.
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