Varuzhan Hoktanyan, Executive Director of Transparency International Anti-corruption Center participated in Transparency International's Europe and Central Asia Regional and 2012 Annual Membership Meeting in Brasilia, Brazil on November 6, 2012. He was among the 250 representatives from nearly 100 countries of TI around the world who discussed the state of corruption globally and developed new strategies to fight corruption. The meeting adopted a number of resolutions on a wide range of topics including building transparency and accountability in the natural resources industries to which TIAC also joined.

Land grabs and forestry should be covered by new rules in the US and pending in the EU obliging oil, gas and mining companies to disclose revenues and payments to governments in each country of operation.

TI representatives expressed deep concern about an increase in government restrictions on civil society in violation of fundamental human rights. Restrictions include limits on their operations, cumbersome registration procedures and the elimination of tax exemptions.

TI also called on all states to integrate governance and anti-corruption in the post-2015 framework for the Millennium Development Goals. In the financial sector, Transparency International calls for greater transparency and oversight of key benchmarks, including a reform of LIBOR. This resolution also advocates that banks and financial institutions disclose their risk exposures.

In another resolution, Transparency International outlined seven priority areas for action by the leaders of the G20 concentrating on financial transparency, foreign bribery and restitution of stolen assets.

Transparency International also called on the Afghan government and international community to reinforce their efforts to fight rampant corruption.
Further resolutions laid out positions on the future of development efforts after 2015.

The Annual Membership Meeting of Transparency International has re-elected incumbent board member Sergej Muravjov and elected Iftekhar Zaman as board members.

The full resolutions are available online.

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