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UNDER SECRETARY ZEYA’S REMARKS AT THE SUMMIT FOR DEMOCRACY DAY 2 ANTI-CORRUPTION
COHORTS EVENT

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Uzra Zeya, Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights

Seoul, Republic of Korea

March 19, 2024



Thank you, Renee.  Good morning, everyone, and good afternoon and good evening
to those joining online from across the globe.  It is a pleasure to be here with
you all reflecting on the dynamic contributions the three anti-corruption
democracy cohorts have made to the Summit for Democracy.  As someone who has
been engaged in the Summit from its very earliest days, first leading the U.S.
planning team and more recently as a partner and participant under the Republic
of Korea’s leadership this past year, I am so proud to see how the cohorts have
taken off.  They embody the ideals we had in mind when we launched this process
three years ago – bringing together bright minds from across sectors and around
the world to tackle some of the stickiest challenges and most exciting
opportunities facing democracies.  They have created networks to support mutual
learning and, most importantly, to encourage one another toward concrete
action.  

Corruption is an attack on the very legitimacy of governments, driving a rift
between citizens and the state that authoritarians and violent extremists can
exploit.  It is a vexing problem often hiding in shadows and operating under
layers of secrecy.  It warps incentive structures so that those who engage in
corrupt acts often have substantial resources to entrench the systems that allow
them to benefit from their misdeeds.  At the same time, corruption can deny
resources to those institutions working to expose and pursue accountability for
corrupt acts.  And so, the fight against corruption won’t be won by governments
and anti-corruption authorities alone, civil society – and youth leaders among
them – have a critical role to play.  

The overarching theme of this year’s Summit – Democracy for Future Generations –
is especially salient because young people know that corruption will bankrupt
their future.   That is why young people are at the forefront of pushing all of
us to be more transparent, more accountable, and more responsive to public
needs.  Civil society and young people know all too well the impact of
corruption on their daily lives, and they are a blossoming hothouse of new ideas
in the fight against corruption.   

The Biden Administration has made clear from day one that we simply cannot
deliver for our people and all people, including youth, without tackling global
corruption.  Democratic governance depends on the trust and participation of
citizenry and their faith in the electoral process, and few things poison trust
in government more than corruption.  Furthermore, corruption disproportionately
affects underrepresented and marginalized groups, so countering corruption
creates more pathways for fair and equitable access to resources and
opportunities. Thankfully this trio of cohorts has certainly not shied away from
such sticky challenges.   

First, the cohort led by the Government of Bulgaria, the Basel Institute on
Governance, and the Center for the Study of Democracy focused on anti-corruption
policies as a boon to national security, a proposition that the United States
emphatically supports.  When corrupt actors undermine domestic stability or
external states choose to weaponize existing corruption to advance their foreign
policy objectives – the best antidote is promoting transparency and fairness,
adopting good and responsive governance, and exposing and fighting corruption. 
Doing so not only protects our own systems, but it pushes back on authoritarian
or criminal actors who seek to reshape countries or even the world order to
their own advantage.  

Second, the Government of Moldova, the Basel Institute, and Transparency
International-led cohort strengthened international cooperation to fight
corruption, another absolutely key priority.  Corruption does not respect
national boundaries, and so our solutions must also cross borders.  We must
learn from one another, exchange information and experiences, and work together
to trace the proceeds of corruption and increase asset recovery.  Building off
the successful Global Forum on Asset Recovery in 2017, last year the United
States and partners launched the GFAR Action Series to bring together law
enforcement practitioners to advance cross-border asset recovery cases affecting
eight “priority” countries.  In December, the GFAR Action Series brought
together practitioners from 20 jurisdictions for over 50 bilateral case
coordination meetings during the UNCAC Conference of the States Parties.  We
look forward to seeing further progress this year and beyond.       

Third and finally, the United States has been proud to lead, jointly with the
Brookings Institution and the Open Government Partnership, a cohort promoting
financial transparency and integrity.  We know a thing or two about how corrupt
actors work.  First, we know they often abuse public procurement processes to
overcharge and under-deliver.  Their next step is to move their ill-gotten gains
through opaque layers of shell companies and other corporate vehicles.  Step
three relies on networks of complicit professional service providers to move and
launder the proceeds of their corrupt acts, allowing them to freely enjoy the
proceeds of their crimes wherever they choose.  So, we decided to use what we’ve
learned to disrupt this process at each stage.   

The FTI cohort, as we call it, set three focus areas early on: procurement
transparency, beneficial ownership reform, and tackling the enablers of
corruption.  Over the past year and a half, the cohort has elevated the
conversation in each of these three areas, bringing together dozens of
representatives of governments and organizations across civil society, academia,
and industry to discuss and exchange lessons learned and challenges.  We’ve also
created guidance documents summarizing key findings, highlighting useful
resources, and offering practical considerations for governments looking to take
on each of these areas of reform.  These toolkits emphasize opportunities to
work alongside civil society to foster transparency, accountability, and higher
standards of integrity.  I would encourage you to consult these outcome
documents as a component of our ever-striving quest to learn from and build off
one another’s work.   

The work achieved by these three cohorts directly informs our efforts in other
forums.  For the FTI cohort specifically, we have decided to integrate its work
fully into other venues like OGP, the UNCAC Conference of States Parties, and
regional multilateral bodies, to build international consensus among a wider
audience, and to support our partners around the world to build the capacity and
systems they need to develop effective beneficial ownership registries, create
effective procurement processes that maximize service delivery to citizens and
reduce opportunities for corruption, and understand and begin to tackle the
issue of enablers of corruption.   

We are clear eyed about the mountain of work yet to be done in each of the three
cohorts and on the part of the U.S. government, we are committed to keeping at
it.  We will continue to climb that mountain and chip away at the foundation
corrupt actors use to fund their nefarious deeds.  We’ve also made financial
transparency and integrity a key component of U.S. engagement in other
bodies.  In particular, the United States is honored to serve as president of
the Conference of the States Parties of the UN Convention against Corruption,
where we have prioritized FTI issues for our two-year term as president.  We are
also advancing FTI themes through our support to the OECD’s Global
Anti-Corruption and Integrity Forum, and through our partnership with TI on the
International Anti-Corruption Conference series.   

I know our co-leads are just as committed to continuing their work on these
issues, including via OGP’s Beneficial Ownership Leadership Group and
Procurement Network, and Brookings’ Anti-Corruption, Democracy, and Security
project.  I am excited to see where this work will take us and I am so pleased
that we are making this journey together. Thank you again to government, civil
society, and intergovernmental partners leading the way, which brings us closer
to a future in which democratic governments thrive and provide for their people,
free of the scourge of corruption.  

Thank you.  



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