Organizers, including the United States and United Kingdom believe that the June 7 meeting would offer an opportunity to distribute printed copies of Civil Society Organization (CSO) document on assets recovery to asset recovery experts and discuss it with them.
At the end of the Vienna Asset Recovery side event, the CSO UNCAC working group on asset recovery will make a statement in the areas of:
• Accountability and Transparency at all stages of Asset recovery.
• Recognition of the proper and formal role of Civil Society in asset recovery.
• Assets recovered should be used for repairing the harm caused by grand corruption and for. meeting Goal 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
At the Global Forum for Asset Recovery event in Washington, D.C., December 2-4 2017, there were strong suggestions that for the asset recovery campaign to garner interest and momentum, creating a global platform for CSO work on asset recovery and kleptocracy would be useful.
It was also suggested that holding some form of event for CSOs on Asset Recovery during 2018 would be something to aim for. This event in Vienna Austria is a realization of that goal.
