The United States stresses that Iraq made progress in the implementation

The United States stresses that Iraq made progress in the implementation of the International Convention against corruption and calls for the development of the judicial staff

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2013/06/04 18: 26


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United States, announced Tuesday that Iraq had made progress in complying with the United Nations Convention against corruption, while stressing the need for the development of judicial staff and infrastructure, and keeping records of the judges, the Judicial Council, stressed that Washington is concerned with the provision of technical assistance to the Iraqi judiciary.

He said u.s. Embassy charge d'affaires in Baghdad, Douglas Silliman in his speech during the meeting of the Coordination Committee, the joint legal, under the banner of (law enforcement and judicial cooperation) held in the judicial development Institute in Baghdad, attended by (range), "this is the eighth meeting of the Committee for capacity-building of staff and institutions of the judiciary and law enforcement, and strengthen relationships to tackle corruption and cross-border crimes," adding "it can say that Iraq has made considerable progress in compliance with the United Nations Convention against corruption".

Silliman promised that "Iraq has become a regional leader in conjunction with strengthening institutions and supporting officials who put the basis for democratic progress in Iraq", stating that "the United States welcomes the ideas how to tackle corruption and increase public confidence in institutions."

Silliman said, "we look forward to working with all departments to strengthen efforts to combat financial crime, including money-laundering and the financing of terrorism".

The President said the SJC smooth nouman in his speech at the meeting that "this meeting is to exchange views and best practices related to capacity-building and training, including continuing professional development activities for both judges and judicial investigators."

"All the things that we are discussing at this meeting is to address corruption and terrorist threats, border security and terrorism crimes, trafficking in human beings, organized crime, drug, money laundering and smuggling of Antiquities and computer crime", stating that "the recent meeting held in March of 2012, is part of the strategic agreement signed between Iraq and the United States in 2008."

As Vice-President of the American charge d'affaires in Baghdad, James Knight, in a joint news conference with the Deputy Head of the Supreme Judicial Council Samy almamoi following the end of the meeting, "Iraq needed to develop infrastructure and capacity-building of judicial staff, adding that" the United States remains a partner for Iraq in justice and the rule of law. "

Knight said that "there is a need to keep records of judges" and expressed the hope that "these judges help the Iraqis to establish a system to help them in their work."

Meanwhile, the Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council, Sami Al-mamouri said the meeting focused on identifying ways to expand cooperation in order to strengthen the efforts of the Iraqi Government in order to improve access to justice for women and children, and vulnerable and against gender-based violence and human trafficking. "

Akram said the United States "means the process of programme funding and technical assistance to help eliminate the use of modern systems in the management of litigation and save data system, strengthening the performance of the police."

The Iraqi delegation included at the meeting representatives of the Supreme Judicial Council and the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice and human rights and the Ministry of State for Parliament and the Office of the legal adviser of the Prime Minister, with most of the u.s. delegation of representatives of the u.s. State Department and the Justice Department and the FBI.

And Iraq and the United States signed the end of November 2008, a cooperation agreement called the "strategic framework agreement", in addition to the security Pact stipulates that all u.s. forces will withdraw from all land, water and airspace no later than 31 December of the year 2011.

Washington has a diplomatic mission in Iraq is one of the largest u.s. missions in countries around the world, most notably, with workers at the u.s. Embassy in Baghdad with more than 10,000 employees, most of them security personnel.

The President of the Republic of Iraq, on the 27 of may 2013, the need for judicial independence and "fortified corruption and breaking the law" and called upon to provide support and protection for judges to participate in promoting "justice and equality among citizens", while the Supreme Judicial Council stressed the importance of judicial oversight and install infrastructure and regulations inspired by the spirit of the Constitution and applies to everyone.

The human rights watch organization, announced (31 December 2012 the last), in its annual report for that year, that "bad criminal justice system is a major concern in Iraq and that the Iraqi Government's priorities for 2013, that the amendment on this system, to ensure the implementation of the criminal procedure law.

Accusing some political blocs, several international destinations Iraqi judiciary of bias to the Government in its decisions and cite several incidents in which Federal Court issued and other Iraqi courts, decisions of "Government" is in the best interest of the fed, like the larger mass resolution, refusal to distribute cash to share oil and other issues, as well as other charges for Government use "the weapon" against its opponents by accusing them of "terrorism" under "tskithm".

Iraqi lawyers complain of harassment at work, a number of them arrested, dozens of lawyers staged a sit-in in April 2012, before a court in Baghdad after an argument between one of them fellow police officers, alleging that the colleague was beaten and humiliated by the police, and demanded the non-recurrence of such violations, with affirmed in Nineveh, in (November), that claimed the Cabinet arrested three of its members returned and freed after two Documentation and abuse them.

The Iraqi Bar Association was established under law No. 91 of 1933 and was the first captain to Najib Swedish lawyers, it has today a membership of thousands of lawyers across Iraq.

Transparency International has been concerned with the fight against corruption in the world, criticized on 4 April 2013, "no progress" in providing basic services to Iraqis despite the tenth anniversary of the US invasion of the country, and stressed that this was "the tragic reality of the fragile State institutions, lame cannot provide basic services for its citizens, as well as corruption in the joints".

The integrity Commission, announced (February 4, 2013), on the transfer of 6,000 suspected corruption cases to the competent courts by the year 2012, that the amounts of the transactions where corrupt practices exceeded 1 trillion dinars.

As confirmed by the recent u.s. studies, that Iraq was the biggest growth in imports in the region, due to higher oil production, which is the lifeblood of the local economy, but analysts were quoted by the studies say that strong economic growth was not accompanied by improvements in living conditions and service because of widespread corruption.

The integrity Commission, revealed in its annual report, for the year 2012 and got (range), decrease the value of the country's corruption cases of some three trillion Iraqi dinars in 2011 to about 133 billion by the year 2012, the total cases referred to the Iraqi judiciary reached 4,278, while showing that the number of accused transferred to courts amounted to 6,260 people, showed that the number of total body 8779 accused, including 24 Ministers or of the degree was 16 of them.

The phenomenon of corruption is the biggest challenge to the security of the Iraqi Government since the US-led war on Iraq in 2003, and has reached levels of corruption in Iraq led by specialized international organizations has led to the most corrupt countries in the world, solving Iraq in 2012 last ranked third in terms of the level of corruption.

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