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潘基文在致辞中说，腐败的代价不仅是政府资源被浪费或盗用，更会造成原本用于修建医院、学校、清洁用水、道路和桥梁等设施的资源缺乏，而这些设施是能改变很多家庭和社区命运的。
潘基文说：“腐败减少机会，造成普遍的不平等。腐败损害人权和良政，抑制经济增长，扭曲市场。”他说，腐败还加剧环境问题，助长危险废物非法倾弃和动植物非法贸易。
潘基文强调，要实行法治，就要防止腐败。《联合国反腐败公约》有１６４个缔约国，仍需要各国普遍加入。他说：“各国政府必须发挥各自的作用，各国公民必须为此大声疾呼。”
２００３年１０月３１日，第５８届联合国大会通过决议，正式采纳历时两年多拟定的《联合国反腐败公约》，并于当年１２月９日至１１日在墨西哥梅里达举行高级别签署会议。这项决议还将每年的１２月９日确定为“国际反腐败日”，以纪念公约签署和唤起国际社会对腐败问题的重视与关注。
The United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon on Friday called on the internationalcommunity to deal with the problem of corruption, which he said has become "all the moreurgent".
"As the international community strives to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 and forge an agenda for economic and social progress in the years beyond, addressing theproblem of corruption becomes all the more urgent," Ban said in a message marking theInternational Anti-Corruption Day, which falls on December 9.
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"The cost of corruption is measured not just in the billions of dollars of squandered or stolengovernment resources, but most poignantly in the absence of the hospitals, schools, clean water, roads and bridges that might have been built with that money and would have certainly changedthe fortunes of families and communities," he said.
The UN chief noted that corruption destroys opportunities and creates rampant inequalities, whichundermines human rights and good governance, stifles economic growth and distorts markets.
"Corruption also aggravates environmental problems, through the illegal dumping of hazardouswaste and the illegal trade in animal and plant life facilitated by bribery and under-the-tableincentives that determine who is awarded contracts, especially for highly lucrative, large-scaleinfrastructure projects," Ban said.
In the message, the secretary-general underlined that preventing corruption is critical to securingthe rule of law, urging governments to play their part and citizens to raise their voices.
He also stressed that corruption, which "flows from greed and the triumph of the undemocraticfew over the expectations of the many," is not inevitable.
"On International Anti-Corruption Day, I call on everyone to work towards a sustainable futurewhere corruption is exposed and rejected, where integrity prevails, and where the hopes anddreams of millions are realized," he added.
On October 31, 2003, the UN General Assembly adopted the United Nations Convention againstCorruption and requested that the secretary-general designate the United Nations Office on Drugsand Crime (UNODC) as secretariat for the Convention's Conference of States Parties.
The Assembly also designated December 9 as the International Anti-Corruption Day, to raiseawareness of corruption and of the role of the Convention in combating and preventing it. TheConvention entered into force in December 2005. |
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发表于 2016-7-11 09:56:03