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Sponsors: European Union, United States of America, Saudi Arabia Committee: Group of 20 Date: 20 March 2014 Location: Mexico City Possible Resolution B1 Guided by the agreements, goals and aims reached and established in the previous G20 meeting celebrated in Russia; Alarmed by the fact that corruption threatens the integrity of markets, undermines fair competition, distorts resource allocation, destroys public trust, and undermines the rule of law. Corruption is a severe impediment to economic growth, and a significant challenge for developed, emerging and developing countries. Recognizing that we, as leaders of major trading nations, have a special responsibility to prevent and tackle corruption, to establish legal and policy frameworks that promote a clean business environment and to continue to assist G20 countries in their capacity building efforts to combat corruption; Expressing its satisfaction for the commitment and resolution shown by all the members of this committee; Defining corruption as a wrongdoing on the part of an authority or powerful party through means that are illegitimate, immoral, or incompatible with ethical standards; Seeking for a sustainable economic architecture and financial stability in all nations; The Group of 20 has resolved the following: 1) Emphasizes that corruption is closely linked to illegal activities such as drug and human trafficking. And therefore encourages every member nation of this committee to develop increased business competition, in order to prevent and eventually eradicate unofficial activities that lead to corruption. To do such, each state will determine the best strategy to be used to achieve increased business activity, whether they decide to implement capacitation programs, access to financing, technology, or others; 2) Has resolved that the participation of citizens is a vital piece towards the regulation of governmental expenditure and the achievement of financial transparency. This committee exhorts the improvement of means (web pages or direct consultation) that allow citizens to closely follow the destination of taxes and the state spending. For countries, in which such systems do not exist yet, immediate action will have to take place in order for all the citizens of the G20 members to have access to this information. The improvements mentioned above will include: a wider broad of available information that allows close watch of taxes and public investment and the availability to request further information if such is required by any citizen in their respective country. The previous will follow the Right to Information;

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3) Reaffirms that education is a vital pillar for the well-functioning society. Using such as a tool to fight corruption, this committee has resolved that educational campaigns by the use of mass media (internet) and directed by the UNESCO in cooperation with each country, will be created in order to divulgate consciousness of the benefits of fighting corruption, teaching morality and ethics, including awareness of the measures taken by this committee to eradicate corruption and on information about the Anti-Corruption International Day. As well, private companies in each nation will be encouraged to establish educational courses on Anti-Corruption in order to stop this issue from the inside of the enterprises; 4) Trusts each nation to take the corresponding measurements to punish corruption at an international and local level between governments, multinational organizations and their own citizens. This committee establishes that each nation is responsible for its own citizens, and as such they will be judge and punished under their own laws, therefore when such laws are not complied, all the financial support established in this resolution will be removed immediately. In order to make sure that laws are applied effectively in each nation, such will be more practical and efficient, by the establishment of a guideline where the minimum sanction will be and economic sanction, and where the maximum punishment will be determined by each country according to its own regulations. 5) Further invites Transparency International to continue with its paper as body that fights corruption, by providing capacitation to the federal institutions of each country that require such; 6) Notes that funding is a key feature for the previous solutions to be achieved, therefore encourages every nation to designate a certain percentage of their annual GDP to fight corruption. If some countries find themselves unable to do such the World Bank will assist on this matter. 7) Supports that financial incentives, such as tax reduction, are provided to companies that strictly follow each countries Anti-Corruption policies, in order to foment the adoption of AntiCorruption regulations; 8) Designates that in order to measure the success of the previous proposals in a fixed time frame, in the following G7 and G20 meetings a revision of the previous points will take place in order to better tackle corruption around the world in the future. In addition an external UN observer will take part of this previously mentioned revisions, which will be carried on each trimester to keep record, and results will be shown every 5 years. 9) Bribery OECD info. Still pending. 10) Has resolved that, due to the urgent need of the 5 most corrupt countries that are members of the G20, additional aid will be granted by increased economic support, in order to tackle

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corruption swiftly, by providing their federal institutions with the necessary resources to do such; 11) Calls upon the support of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to establish a fixed budget to fight corruption and finance the previous proposals of the resolution;