Anticorruption forum of NDP Nur Otan city branch to take place in Almaty

Almaty. November 4. Kazakhstan Today - Anticorruption forum of the city branch of the National Democratic Party Nur Otan will take place in Almaty on November 5. The first vice president of Almaty branch of the party, Tokmuhamed Sadykov, informed at the briefing on Monday, the agency reports.

The event with participation of the representatives of the law-enforcement departments, higher educational institutions, nongovernmental organizations, members of public council on struggle against corruption of all levels and active workers of the youth wing Zhas Otan is being carried out within the republican anticorruption forum.

T. Sadykov said that public council on struggle against corruption at Almaty city branch of NDP Nur Otan and the prosecutor's office in Almaty signed memorandum of cooperation on October 22, 2008.

"The purpose of the memorandum is cooperation in the area of struggle against corruption, maintenance of fair and effective protection of the rights of citizens, protection of business from illegal interventions, and counteraction to any destructive actions directed at destabilization of political conditions," T. Sadykov informed.

The main directions of cooperation are "development and acceptance of concrete and complex measures on struggle against corruption, information exchange, organization and strengthening of joined work on prevention and preventive maintenance of corruption offences, organization of legal explanatory works, and cooperation with mass media."

According to the National Democratic Party Nur Otan, for ten months the public council on struggle against corruption of the party city branch has received 433 complaints. "The majority of them are connected with infringement of constitutional laws and legitimate interests of citizens with pronouncement by courts of illegal and unreasonable sentences," T. Sadykov noted.

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