[28/July/2010]
By: Mahmoud Assamiee

SANA'A, July 28 (Saba)- The Supreme National Authority for Combating Corruption (SNACC) has referred 24 corruption issues to the prosecutions and sent files of officials who do not submit their financial statement disclosers to justice, said Ahmad al-Anesi Chairman of SNACC.

In his speech he delivered in the opening ceremony of the second conference of Arab Anti-Corruption and Integrity Network (ACINET), al-Anesi added that the authority has received 10,000 financial statement disclosures from officials included in anti-corruption law.

He said that Yemen is like any other country has sensed early the danger of corruption so that it put anti- corruption efforts on the top of its priorities. It started with implementing the inclusive reform national program in 1995.


"With the growing of corruption challenges and increasing its dangers, a need to coordinating national, regional efforts in enhancing integrity and combating corruption which resulted in creating the United Nation Treaty for Combating Corruption emerged," he said.

Adding that Yemen is like any other country sensed the danger of corruption and as a result it established the SNACC in 2007.

Meanwhile, Head of Arab Anti- Corruption Integrating Network, the Head of Jordan Anti- Corruption Authority Abd al-Shakhabina said the aim of the conference is to create a forum gathering the most significant concerned bodies in Arab countries to discuss means of activating the national efforts in this filed via enacting a strategy from the practical experiences in the Arab region.

"Corruption can not be eradicated without enacting national strategies for combating it. These strategies have to be in line with the laws and systems of every country."

He talked about Jordan experience and its efforts in improving legislation and the institutional framework via establishing a number of censorship corporations and issuing laws which organize national legislations.

Meanwhile Qatari General Prosecutor Ali Al-Marri, the official who is charged with combating corruption in Qatar said corruption has become a tumor must be eradicated.

" Talking about corruption was prohibited until recently but today has become accepted,” he said, stressing that fighting corruption needs strong political will.



During the two-day conference, the Supreme National Authority for Combating Corruption launched the National Strategy for Combating Corruption.

The strategy tackles corruption in Yemen, its essence, reasons, amplitude, consequences and trends of fighting it.

The strategy also includes the connectional and methodical framework of the strategy and the national system of transparency and fighting corruption. Measures to protect against corruption and stopping its practice, rescuing the law and judicial follow up, promoting awareness and social participation, are additional components that aim to coordinate efforts of the strategy.

The strategy has two main aims: To enhance principles of integrity and transparency and to improve administrative and intuitional mechanisms to boost accountability and protection against corruption. The strategy has also other short and long term aims like promoting awareness.


The strategy is based on Islamic religious, national legislatives, political willingness and the national agenda for inclusive reforms as well as drawn from Yemen’s international commitments with its development partners and the international legislations represented in the United Nations’ treaties in the field of combating corruption.

The conference aimed at reaching joint vision on the importance of anti-corruption strategies, discussing the significant experiences on enacting national strategies and establishing consistency on working out mechanisms to censor implementing anti-corruption strategies.

The conference aimed also at encouraging real approach considering the comprehensive ruling and merging the sector challenges and encouraging approach to take into consideration the role of the private sector and the civil society.


The conference discussed in its six work sessions the United Nations anti- corruption agreements, tools of censorship and evaluation on implementing anti-corruption national strategies, successful experience in drafting making the national anti-corruption strategies and also successful experiences in implementing these strategies.

The sessions also discussed relation between national strategies and reforms of managing ruling, boosting censorship jobs of the parliament, boosting transparency and integrity in public purchases, financial fraud and corruption in tax system, enhancing integrity in public services and building confidence and coalitions to combat corruption.

The conference came out with giving Yemen the presidency of ACINET and Morocco was appointed as the deputy. A work program for the second round of the network has been also approved for the period 2010-2011.

ACINET has been established in July 30 2008 in Jordon. It is a regional forum Arab countries work through it on enhancing their work in field of transparency, accountability and implementing international and regional treaties on combating corruption.



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