The regular meeting of Bureau of the International Anti-Corruption Academy under the chairmanship of Kazakhstan was held in Vienna

On September 15, 2020, Ambassador Kairat Sarybay, Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the international organizations in Vienna, on behalf of the Kazakhstan’s Presidency of the Bureau of the Eight session of the International Anti-Corruption Academy’s Assembly of Parties (AoP) convened extended meeting of the Bureau in Online format.

The meeting was attended by members of the Bureau - representatives of Austria, Malaysia, Nigeria and Slovakia, as well as Chairs of the UN regional groups.

The parties considered a wide range of issues of the Academy’s activities, including the timing and format of the next 9^th session of the IACA Assembly at the end of this year.

Kazakhstan is consistently implementing anti-corruption reforms. As the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev noted the systemic fight against corruption is one of the priorities of the county’s strategic development.

The authorized state body in Kazakhstan for cooperation with the International Anti-Corruption Academy is the Anti-Corruption Agency, which in May 2018 signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Academy.