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The Government of Iraq is creating an Iraqi Joint Anti Corruption
Council (JACC) which will be signed at 11:00 am at the Prime Minister's
Office. This body will coordinate anticorruption agencies and formulate
nationwide strategies in combating corruption. This group shall be made
up of the Secretary of the Council of Ministers, a representative of the
Iraqi Higher Juridical Council, a senior member of the Iraqi Inspectors
General, the President of the Iraqi Supreme Board of Audit, and the
Commissioner of the Iraqi Commission on Public Integrity.
This body is the culmination of months of care drafting and negotiation
between the independent commissions, the Prime Minister's Office, and
the Court System. A departure from the political practices of the past
that relied upon a strongman approach with a single leader, this body
recognizes the independent nature of the court system and independent
agencies charged with confronting corruption in Iraq. As a means to
gather consensus to fight corruption through the bolstering on
independent nonpartisan political action the JACC signals a major
advance in democratic practice and Rule of Law.
The JACC will serve as a forum for each of the stakeholders to confront
corruption in Iraq and apply a unified front in anticorruption efforts.
This body both recognizes the equal status of these agencies and serves
to take advantage of their independence to focus a nationwide approach
for combating corruption.
This is not a U.S. Embassy event. The sponsoring agency will be the
Iraqi Council of Ministers
POC Dr Alli Alaq
0790-194-8371
Secretary General of the COM
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