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VIENNA - Interpol and the United Nations' anti-drugs agency said Monday they have reached an agreement to establish an anti-corruption training centre, to be located in Vienna.
It will be a "centre of excellence in anti-corruption education, research and professional training," Ronald Noble, general secretary of the international police organisation Interpol, told reporters in Vienna.
Interpol's partner will be the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The centre will come into being in the autumn of 2009 and will eventually take in 1,000 participants a year, most of them public service staff, from Interpol's 187 member states.
"Corruption is one of the most serious crimes, because it makes all the other crimes easier," said UNODC director Antonio Maria Costa.
The centre will be housed at Laxenburg, on the outskirts of Vienna.
It will cost "15 million euros for the first three years," said Noble and there will be an international donors' conference next year. - AFP/vm
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