US Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States announced yesterday after a talk at the Ministry of Foreign Relations in Santo Domingo that in March a committee of experts would evaluate the DR’s fulfillment of the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption, as reported in Hoy newspaper. Maisto spoke out that corruption undermines the legitimacy of public institutions and strikes at society, moral order and justice, as well as at the comprehensive development of peoples.
He said there are now regional commitments in place following the Special Summit of the Americas in January 2004 in Monterey, Mexico now make difficult the harboring of corrupt government officers and the maintenance of their ill-gained assets abroad. He said that high-level efforts are in place in the hemisphere for cooperation in the struggle against corruption.
Participating in the panel about the summit and democracy were also deputy minister for foreign policy of the Ministry of Foreign Relations Alejandra Liriano; Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado, rector of the PUCMM, and Flavio Dario Espinal, dean of the law school at the PUCMM.
A former US ambassador to Venezuela, Ambassador Maisto served as Special Assistant to President Bush and Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs for National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice from January 2001 to April 2003. During his visit to Santo Domingo, he met with President Leonel Fernandez.
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