The ninth Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), which wrapped up Friday in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, adopted, by consensus, a resolution drafted and presented by Morocco and co-sponsored by the G77 group and China, on the “Follow-up to the Marrakech Declaration on the Prevention of Corruption”.
The resolution, which was negotiated during rounds of consultations in Vienna, was presented by ambassador Azzeddine Farhane, Permanent Representative of Morocco in Vienna to the Committee of the Whole of the Conference of States Parties in Sharm El Sheikh, and was also co-sponsored by the European Union (27 countries) and a number of countries including the United States, China, Lebanon, Norway, Indonesia, Oman, Nigeria, Dominican Republic, Armenia and Mexico.
This is the fifth consecutive time that this resolution has been co-sponsored by the G77 and China as the largest political grouping within the United Nations that includes African as well as Latin American and Asian states (134 countries).
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