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Transparency International to Establish Anticorruption Centers in CIS Countries

(Tbilisi, May 7, 2003. Civil Georgia) – Transparency International will establish centers in the CIS countries, which will gather information about anti-corruption activities from the countries around the world, TI representative Peter Aigen announced in Alma-Aty on May 6.

“Today there are means to fight corruption even in those countries, which have accommodated themselves with it. This evil can be defeated only by the civil society” – he said.

As Aigen explained, TI is developing a special code of behavior for the companies, which operate in particular countries.

Interfax news agency reports, that according to the annual worldwide corruption indexes, published by the Transparency International, in 2002 Georgia and Ukraine were on 85th place, while Russia and Uzbekistan on 71st and 68th respectively.

In the index list less corrupted countries are on higher places.

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