TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL REPORTS CLOSE TO 3 POINT FOR ARMENIA
Panorama.am
15:35 06/11/06
Armenia is among the group of countries which have lower than
point 3 level of corruption which means that corruption is quite
widespread. Amalia Kostanyan, head of Armenia office of Transparency
International, said, "Armenia has received 2.9 points which has not
changed since last year despite of anticorruption strategy launched
for three years."
One hundred sixty three countries were included in the rating
against 159 last year. The rating is done on 1-10 points. Countries
which receive close to 1 are considered more corrupt. No country has
received 10 points with Finland, Island and New Zealand having close
to 10 – 9.6 points. Countries like Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uruguay,
India and Japan reported progress whereas Brazil, Cuba, Jordanian,
Israel and USA reported regression to more corruption.
Armenia is at the 93rd place together with Argentina, Syria, Eritrea,
Tanzania and Bosnia Herzegovina. Our neighbor – Georgia, Iran and
Azerbaijan are at 99, 105 and 130 places respectively.