Amalia Kostanyan, Chairwoman of CRD/TI Armenia was invited to participate at the Fifth Monitoring Meeting and Seventh Advisory Group Meeting under the Istanbul Anti-corruption Action Plan organized by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Secretariat of the Anti-Corruption Network (ACN) which took place in Paris, France on 12-13 June 2006.

The objective of the Monitoring Meeting was to assess progress in implementing the anti-corruption recommendations endorsed under the Istanbul Action Plan for Azerbaijan, Georgia and Tajikistan and to adopt monitoring reports for these countries. The meeting also discussed brief updates about progress made by Armenia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Ukraine. The Advisory Group of the Istanbul Action Plan took place following the Monitoring Meeting; it discussed the implementation of the Action Plan and agreed on the next steps.