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Merita Huch By the end of this year, the remaining 10 Pacific United Nations members should be ratifying the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). This is the expectation of the United Nations as stressed in a recently held seminar towards ratification of the convention. The Pacific region has the lowest ratifying rate on this convention. A total of 10 countries have not signed and the UN Offices in the region is moving in to further push awareness of what the UN describes as a vital agreement when it comes to protecting the Pacific’s integrity and allowing this small region more involvement in international cooperation to fight corruption nationally and internationally. Senior officials from around the region have been at loggerheads with members of the UN Pacific Centre in finding ways to devise the best framework that will suit the Pacific when the islands do decide to sign this agreement. Only Palau, Fiji and Papua New Guinea from the region have ratified UNCAC. For t

Merita Huch By the end of this year, the remaining 10 Pacific United Nations members should be ratifying the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). This is the expectation of the United Nations as stressed in a recently held seminar towards ratification of the convention. The Pacific region has the lowest ratifying rate on this convention. A total of 10 countries have not signed and the UN Offices in the region is moving in to further push awareness of what the UN describes as a vital agreement when it comes to protecting the Pacific’s integrity and allowing this small region more involvement in international cooperation to fight corruption nationally and internationally. Senior officials from around the region have been at loggerheads with members of the UN Pacific Centre in finding ways to devise the best framework that will suit the Pacific when the islands do decide to sign this agreement. Only Palau, Fiji and Papua New Guinea from the region have ratified UNCAC. F