Hanoun meets with the Lebanese Ambassador

Baghdad-INA
The head of the Federal Integrity Commission, Haider Hanoun, stressed on Tuesday, the importance of communication and cooperation between the counterpart institutions of Arab countries, while expressing the Commission’s readiness to conclude a memorandum of understanding with the Lebanese National Anti-Corruption Commission.
 
“The head of the Federal Integrity Commission, Haider Hanoun, met with the Lebanese Ambassador Ali Al-Habhab at the Commission’s headquarters,” The Federal Integrity Commission stated in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
 
 
During the meeting “the Iraqi government’s great openness to its Arab brothers,” Hanoun pointed out “this contributes to developing political, economic, cultural, and social relations between them.”
 
 
“The necessity of coordination and concerted efforts in the field of combating corruption and working to overcome obstacles in this regard through memorandums of understanding and bilateral relations,” It emphasized.
 
Hanoun expressed his "happiness with the Integrity Commission concluding memorandums of understanding with a number of counterpart agencies in Arab countries," considering that "this is one of the steps that falls within the framework of compliance with the decisions of the United Nations and Arab anti-corruption conventions."
 
The Federal Integrity Commission's readiness to conclude a memorandum of understanding with the Lebanese National Anti-Corruption Authority in the field of preventing, preventing and combating corruption,” The statement expressed.
 
 
For his part, the Lebanese Ambassador Ali Al-Habhab affirmed “the readiness of the Lebanese Embassy in Baghdad to overcome all obstacles that may hinder cooperation between the two parties in the fight against corruption,” pointing out that “cooperation between the Iraqi Integrity Commission and the Lebanese National Anti-Corruption Commission and what may result from it in concluding a memorandum of understanding it contributes to facilitating the work of Lebanese companies and investors operating in Iraq.”