To fight corruption is the responsibility of governments, societies and peoples in general CUBA , November 9, 2007.- Over 400 delegates from 21 countries continue Thursday debates of the fourth meeting on society and its challenges of corruption, emphasizing the role of Public Ministries against that scourge. The agenda of the forum, to be concluded Friday at the Havana 's Conference Center , also include the importance of the internal control of companies to avoid that criminal phenomenon, which affects all States. "As a social and political phenomenon, to fight corruption is the responsibility of governments, societies and peoples in general," the Republic of Cuba 's assistant attorney general Carlos Raul Concepcion said at the opening ceremony of the forum. For experts, political, economic, ecological and social problems affecting humanity have generated a loss of ethnical values and those of social coexistence, besides increasing criminal activity. "Organized crime," he stated, "has benefited globalization of economy and now acts on an international scale with total impunity faced with ineffective penal persecution and legal ineffectiveness." Lack of States' willingness to fight criminality and obstacles to international judiciary cooperation have increased crime," said Osvaldo Martinez, president of the Economic Affairs Commission at the Cuban Parliament, who rejected the thesis that corruption only affects southern countries. (Cubaminrex-Periódico Trabajadores)
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