India ratifies UN convention against corruption
May 12th, 2011 - 10:40 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) In a major step in the anti-corruption drive, India has completed the ratification of a UN convention against corruption, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Thursday.
“I have been informed that India has completed the process of ratification of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption. The completion of this ratification process has been under active consideration since September 2010,” Manmohan Singh said in a statement here, before his departure for Kabul Thursday.
“A group of ministers has been overseeing the ratification process,” he added.
“The ratification of the UN convention is a reaffirmation of our government’s commitment to fight corruption and to undertake vigorously administrative and legal reforms to enable our law-enforcement agencies to recover the illicit assets stolen by corrupt practices,” an official statement said.
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