The Chairman of the Integrity Commission receives an invitation to attend the World Government Summit in Dubai

Baghdad-INA  
The Federal Integrity Commission announced today, Wednesday, that its president, Judge Haider Hanoun, received an invitation from his Emirati counterpart to attend the World Government Summit scheduled to be held in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
 
 
The Commission stated in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that “Hanoun received an invitation from the head of the Emirati Audit Bureau, Hamid Obaid Abu Shabas, to attend the World Summit of Governments scheduled to be held in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates during their meeting at the Authority’s headquarters.”
According to the statement, the head of the Integrity Commission stressed “the importance of communication, cooperation and coordination between the institutions of counterpart Arab countries,” noting “the memorandum of understanding concluded with the UAE Audit Bureau and the cooperation of the UAE side in the field of recovering smuggled funds and extraditing convicts.”
For his part, the Emirati ambassador to Baghdad, Salem Issa, stressed “his country’s keenness on Iraq’s participation in the events and conferences it organizes,” pointing to “the necessity of consolidating relations between Arab countries in a way that contributes to their development and prosperity, and coordinating positions in international forums.”
The statement indicated that “The head of the Federal Integrity Commission, Judge (Haider Hanoun) and the head of the Audit Bureau in the Emirates (Hamid Obaid Abu Shabas) signed in May of last year a memorandum of understanding between the Commission and the Bureau, to consolidate and enhance cooperation between the two parties, enhance expertise and increase capacity and institutional building for them, and developing and improving systems and policies for preventing and combating corruption, according to what was stated in the Integrity Commission’s statement.”