Kęstutis Kudzmanas, the Lithuanian Ambassador to Azerbaijan, is glad about the will of this country’s politicians and their particularly decisive combat against corruption.
Azerbaijan authorities have declared combat against administrative corruption in main public management sectors – the traffic police, customs, education system (especially, in universities) and healthcare area. Cross-cutting measures were taken in order to reduce the arbitrariness of public servants.
In the opinion of ambassador Kęstutis Kudzmanas, actions taken over a short period of time give reason to believe that combat against this phenomenon will be a long-term campaign. Azerbaijan’s actions aimed at efficient solving of the corruption problem are supported by the EU, OSCE and other international institutions.
Officials from STT and the Prosecutor General‘s Office of the Republic of Lithuania provide regular advice to Azerbaijani colleagues: provide expert advice, organize training and seminars for officials of the Anti-Corruption Department with the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the improvement of legal acts, methods of investigating criminal cases, recovering property, improvement of skills for prosecutors, operational activities, international cooperation, legal assistance while investigating corruption cases.
This work has been performed since 2009 after the Twinning project “Support for the Anti-Corruption Department with the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Azerbaijan“ started.
The Embassy of Lithuania in Azerbaijan draws attention to the fact that it is the Anti-Corruption Department in Azerbaijan which is currently being essentially strengthened – through drafting legal acts on conferring greater authority upon the Department, preparing to increase personnel and technical capacities.
As stated by the ambassador, in Brussels this project is considered to be one of the most efficient Twinning programme projects under the EU Eastern Partnership as compared to results achieved.
The main objective of the Twinning project initiated by the European Commission in 1998 is to help beneficiary countries improve capacities of their institutions aimed at implementing requirements of the EU acquis or approaching them. The Programme is one the most important tools of the European Commission for developing capacities of public administration institutions.
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