Major General Khaled Saeed, ACA's Head of the National Coordinating Committee for Combating Corruption (NCCCC), delivered an address at the first session of the Arab Forum for Promoting International Cooperation in the Fight against Corruption, held on the sidelines of the fourth session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Arab Convention against Corruption in Riyadh. 

The Major General remarked that the Administrative Control Authority, which  held the  ninth session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (COSP9), plays a vital role  in supporting anti-corruption efforts and coordinating  between the Secretariat of the  Conference of the States Parties to the Arab Anti-Corruption Convention and the Secretariat of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption.

Asserting the support of the Arab Republic of Egypt for the draft resolution of the Mechanism for the Review of Implementation of the Arab Anti- Corruption Convention, Major General Khaled Saeed expressed the readiness of the Egyptian Anti-Corruption Academy (EACA) to offer expertise and to provide training courses for the open-ended intergovernmental expert group from the Member states of the Arab League. In light of this, the Major General elucidated the importance of the Research and Studies Center at the EACA in promoting the exchange of significant research and studies on combating corruption and tackling the  challenges  in implementing the convention.

Major General Khaled Saeed concluded by thanking the attendees, stressing on Egypt's unremitting commitment to supporting the resolutions of the Mechanism for the Review of Implementation of Convention. The Major General statement springs from Egypt’s firm belief in the importance of mobilizing regional and international efforts to bolster effective mechanisms to prevent and combat corruption and raise awareness of its dangers.

The conference aims at leveraging regional connectivity and enhancing cooperation among Arab countries in the field of preventing and combating corruption in the presence of a number of heads of regional and international anti-corruption bodies and organizations, in addition to representatives of states parties to the Arab Convention.