Seventeen countries in the Asia-Pacific region endorsed an action plan to fight corruption at an international conference Friday in Tokyo, with each planning to set specific priorities for implementation.
At the end of the three-day conference organized by the Asian Development Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, participants agreed that their implementation of the plan, which is legally nonbinding, will be monitored by a steering committee to ensure actions are being taken, officials said.
"We are encouraged that from now on, there will be concrete and targeted effort in each country to improve the situation," said Rainer Geiger, the OECD's deputy director for financial, fiscal and enterprise affairs.