Transparency International is ready to help the Ukrainian Defense Ministry increase transparency, the ministry’s press service has reported.
This issue was discussed at a meeting between First Deputy Defense Minister Ivan Rusnak and a delegation of the London branch of Transparency International in Kyiv on Sept. 25.
“Director for Defense and Security at Transparency International Katherine Dixon reported on the readiness of her organization for cooperation, noting that promising areas of cooperation are increasing the transparency of the Defense Ministry in the field of access to public information, the use of the defense budget and public procurement,” reads the report.
Dixon also proposed holding a number of specialized seminars for the specialists of the Defense Ministry and the Armed Forces and work out criteria for transparency.
Rusnak, in turn, noted that the fight against corruption was the second most important issue for Kyiv after the fulfillment of tasks of the anti-terrorist operation in Donbas.
“The experience and recommendations of Transparency International are a weighty basis in the formation and implementation of Ukraine’s anti-corruption policy, including in the defense sphere,” he said.
He also recalled that according to a study conducted by the National Agency on Corruption Prevention in August, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were among the top three institutions enjoying the greatest public confidence in the Corruption Perception Index.
