The 1st BRICS Anti-Corruption Ministerial Meeting was held virtually on July 13. The meeting was organized by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the National Commission of Supervision (NCS) of China. Mr. Yang Xiaodu, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the CCDI and Chairman of the NCS attended the meeting and delivered a keynote speech.

Yang Xiaodu said, at the 14th BRICS Summit chaired by Chinese President Xi Jinping, BRICS leaders reached extensive consensus including on the BRICS Initiative on Denial of Safe Haven to Corruption, demonstrating to the international community their unequivocal commitment to upholding fairness and justice with concrete actions. The CPC has been unequivocally opposing corruption, and since the 18th CPC National Congress in particular, President Xi Jinping has put forth a series of new ideas, new thinking and new strategies on furthering the fight against corruption. We make integrated efforts to see that officials dare not, can not and will not be corrupt. This has ensured and consolidated the overwhelming victory over corruption and helped us to find the way to break the historical cycle through self-imposed reform, winning extensive endorsement and support from the Chinese people.

Yang Xiaodu said, it’s the common task for all the countries to fight corruption. BRICS countries should build political consensus to jointly implement the BRICS Initiative on Denial of Safe Haven to Corruption, learn more from each other and jointly enhance capacity to combat corruption, boost development and foster a clean business environment, uphold multilateralism and work for a fair and equitable international anti-corruption regime, so as to make new contributions to a community with a shared future for mankind and a global community of development.

Ministers in charge of anti-corruption affairs from BRICS countries and heads of international organizations including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime attended the meeting. The BRICS Anti-Corruption Ministerial Communique was adopted at the meeting.

(Source:Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China )