{"id":8543,"date":"2024-05-23T16:45:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T12:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/?p=8543"},"modified":"2024-05-26T00:21:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T20:21:02","slug":"karen-zadoyan-and-marat-atovmyan-had-meetings-with-the-leadership-of-hong-kong-independent-commission-against-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/8543.html","title":{"rendered":"Karen Zadoyan and Marat Atovmyan had Meetings with the Leadership of Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Today, on 23 May, within the framework of the 8th International Symposium of Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), Mr. Karen Zadoyan, member of the Anti-Corruption Policy Council, Coordinator of the Secretariat of CSO Anti-Corruption Coalition of the RA, President of the Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association (ALA), and Mr. Marat Atovmyan, Anti-Corruption Expert of the Coalition, Vice-President of the ALA,\u00a0had meetings with the leadership of the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-52563 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/armla.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-23-at-14.57.45_3de0b491-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>The Armenian delegation first had an official meeting with Mr. Kenneth WONG Kwok-hung, Director of International Cooperation and Corporate Services of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) of Hong Kong, Secretary General of the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities, and representatives of the Management Staff Department. During the meeting, Karen Zadoyan presented the process of anti-corruption reforms in Armenia, the system of anti-corruption institutional bodies, problems and the scope of possible cooperation, after which Marat Atovmyan presented the possible mechanisms of cooperation, including the implementation of need-based training programs for representatives of Armenia&#8217;s Anti-Corruption Institutional Bodies and representatives of the Specialized Civil Society organizations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Kenneth WONG Kwok-hung, Director of International Cooperation and Corporate Services of the Independent Commission Against Corruption emphasized the development of cooperation with the CSO Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia, including the organization of need-based training programs for representatives of the bodies of the anti-corruption institutional system of Armenia and specialized CSOs within the framework of that cooperation, by the Hong Kong International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The parties discussed other issues of bilateral interest. The Armenian side will present additional details about the discussed issues n the near future. To establish an institutional basis for bilateral cooperation, the parties discussed the possibility of signing a memorandum of understanding in the\u00a0near\u00a0future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Later, Karen Zadoyan and Marat Atovmyan had working meetings with Mr. Mak Wai-keung, Director of (Operations)\u00a0Investigation Department<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-52565 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/armla.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-23-at-15.16.38_529d557a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"236\" \/> (Government Sector) of the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption, Mr. CHOI Shu Keung, Director of Investigation (Private Sector), Ms\u00a0YIM Hau Wan,\u00a0Evalina, Assistant\u00a0Director on Community Relations Department<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Prior to the above mentioned meetings, the representatives of the Armenian delegation also had a meeting with Deputy Director of Hong Kong International Anti-Corruption Academy (International Training) Mr. CHAN Cheuk-hay, Eric.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">During the meetings, the parties discussed the details of possible future cooperation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Please note the 8th International Symposium of the Hong Kong Independent Anti-Corruption Commission (ICAC), which is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Commission, has kicked off on 22 May. The Symposium is co-organized by the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (IAACA) and the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) of Hong Kong, China. 500 participants from 60 countries are present at the Symposium.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52566\" src=\"https:\/\/armla.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-23-at-15.36.17_4a0b3121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52567\" src=\"https:\/\/armla.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-23-at-14.58.06_1e50117c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52568\" src=\"https:\/\/armla.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-23-at-15.16.46_63310ea1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52569\" src=\"https:\/\/armla.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-05-23-at-15.13.40_8a3e5e25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, on 23 May, within the framework of the 8th International Symposium of Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), Mr. Karen Zadoyan, member of the Anti-Corruption Policy Council, Coordinator of the Secretariat of CSO Anti-Corruption Coalition of the RA, President of the Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association (ALA), and Mr. Marat Atovmyan, Anti-Corruption Expert of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8543"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8568,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543\/revisions\/8568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}