Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption: Opportunities for International Cooperation and Results of Activities
https://doi.org/10.46272/2587-8476-2022-13-1-83-93
Abstract
The format of international cooperation of the Conference of the Countries Participating in the UN Convention against Corruption, on the one hand, continues the traditions of international intergovernmental organizations, and on the other hand, represents a new format of interaction between states in the fi eld of anti-corruption activities, which has distinctive features. The Conference has a pivotal role in international cooperation on the prevention and combating of corruption due to the wide area of activities and the number of participants. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the features of the functioning of the Conference of the Countries Participating in the UN Convention against Corruption and the results of its activities since 2006. Using the analysis of documents and scientifi c publications, the author concludes that despite the importance of the Conference as a platform for multilateral dialogue, the countries participating in the United Nations Convention against Corruption failed to achieve signifi cant progress in the declared areas of activity. The author highlights the main diffi culties faced by states in implementing anti-corruption measures based on the norms of international law.
Keywords
United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC),
international cooperation,
anti-corruption policy
Supporting agencies: The reported study was funded by RFBR and DFG, project number 21-514-12001.
About the Author
E. A. Kovtun
Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Technology
Russian Federation
Competing Interests:
Russian Federation
Ekaterina A. Kovtun, Lecturer at the Department of Sociology
190013, St Petersburg, Moskovsky prospect, 26
Competing Interests:
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author
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Kovtun E.A. Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption: Opportunities for International Cooperation and Results of Activities. Journal of International Analytics. 2022;13(1):83-93. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.46272/2587-8476-2022-13-1-83-93
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