UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST CORRUPTION

UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONAGAINST CORRUPTIONV ienna International Centre, PO Box 500, A 1400 Vienna, Austria Tel: +(43) (1) 26060-0, Fax: +(43) (1) 26060-5866, in Austria August 2004 copiesUNITED 17/08/2004 12:33 Page 1 UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIMEV iennaUNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONAGAINST CORRUPTIONUNITED NATIONSNew York, 2004iiiForewordCorruption is an insidious plague that has a wide range of corrosive effectson societies. It undermines democracy and the rule of law, leads to violationsof human rights, distorts markets, erodes the quality of life and allows organizedcrime, terrorism and other threats to human security to evil phenomenon is found in all countries big and small, rich andpoor but it is in the developing world that its effects are most hurts the poor disproportionately by diverting funds intended fordevelopment, undermining a Government s ability to provide basic services,feeding inequality and injustice and discouraging foreign aid and is a key element in economic underperformance and a major obsta-cle to poverty alleviation and am therefore very happy that we no

Convention against Corruption will complete its tasks arising from the negotia-tion of the United Nations Convention against Corruption by holding a meet-ing well before the convening of the first session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Convention in order to prepare the draft text of the rules of

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