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The

its

Community Relations

efforts

to

educate

Department

the public

on the evils of corruption and how to deal with iz. For example it organised functions involving 327,000 people during the year. These functions

included

the organised with Industry Council for which my Hongera fri Dr. Henrietta IP gave the key-note address.

1.

was

seminar a

One

Travel

riend

of the highlights of the year the Third International Anti-Corruption Conference, which

which the ICAC hosted in Hong Kong

Eighteen

from 2 to 6 November.

months of careful

planning paid

paid off and the Conference, which was attended by some 250 delegates, 105 of whom were from overseas representing 72 organisations and 32 countries, proved to be a great success.

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work of

The

international

dimension to the

the Commission, which was reflected by the Conference, is very much 2 reality. You, Sir, made the point in your opening speech at the Conference that, as with many other forms of crime, corruption now transcends city,

city, state

and national boundaries.. This development,

and the fact that corruption is often a component of other major crime, has involved the commission in a wide range of investigations into offences

which were committed in Hong Kong but which

have implications overseas. The co-operation

overseas agencies

agencies have given to ICAC is very much appreciated. For its part the Commission le. in turn tries to meet requests from overseas

for assistance on operational,

administrative matters.

training and

все

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