An overview of the workshop (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The UNDevelopment Programme coordinated with the Government Inspectorate of Vietnam(GIV) to hold a consultation workshop in Hanoi on March 27 on a draft decreeguiding the implementation of the anti-corruption law, which will take effecton July 1 this year.
The workshop is part of theproject on promoting a fair business environment in ASEAN sponsored by the UKProsperity Fund.
In opening the event, UNDP Deputy CountryDirector in Vietnam Akiko Fujii emphasized that corruption is among the biggesthurdles in the path of realising sustainable development goals by 2030.
She hailed Vietnam’s efforts inpreventing and fighting corruption, noting that the country had ratified the UNConvention against Corruption in 2009, revised the 2017 Penal Code to includemajor changes in criminal treatment towards corruption crimes, and passed thenew Law on Corruption Prevention and Combat in 2018.
The UNDP representative pointedto a new point of the new anti-corruption law, which expands the scope of theanti-corruption fight to the private sector.
She said all those effortsdemonstrate Vietnam’s commitment to realising the Sustainable Development Goal16, in which substantially reducing corruption and bribery in all their formsis one of the main indicators.
Representing the decree draftingboard, Nguyen Tuan Anh, deputy director of the GIV’s Legal Affairs Department,said the decree will include detailed stipulations on the time limit duringwhich former officials are banned from establishing orrunning a company in the sector they had worked in, as well as on the practiceof giving gifts, and measures to prevent and combat corruption in non-statesectors and organisations, among others.
The UNDP has been assistingVietnamese partners in the building and enforcement of the anti-corruption law.The decree guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the law is animportant step in enforcing the law.-VNA
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