Financial Action Task Force (FATF) International Standards on Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism & Proliferation in Tashkent. The training was organized together with substantive and financial contributions from the Russian Federation, the EAG, the International Training and Methodology Centre for Financial Monitoring (ITMCFM), and the Government of Uzbekistan. The International Monetary Fund, ITMCFM, the World Bank, and OCEEA provided expert facilitators for the technical training sessions. The training gathered 70 participants from the financial intelligence units (FIUs), law enforcement authorities and Central Banks of Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation and Tajikistan. An additional 40 participants represented Uzbekistan’s Central Bank, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Interior, State Customs Committee, Prosecutor General’s Office, Administration of the President and other state agencies. On 28-30 May, the OCEEA and the World Bank held the last in a series of workshops for the Kyrgyz Republic’s Money Laundering National Risk Assessment in Bishkek. The workshop gathered representatives of government agencies, including the Interior Ministry and other law enforcement agencies, to review and lend political support to the findings of the money laundering national risk assessment produced using a World Bank methodology. On 18-19 November, the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat and the OCEEA organized a workshop on “Mechanisms to Prevent Money Laundering” in Ashgabat. The workshop featured speakers from the OSCE, Serbia and Poland, and gathered more than 25 representatives of Turkmen banks and government agencies, including the FIU, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Interior. Corruption On 29-30 April, the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat and the OCEEA organized a workshop on “Mechanisms to Increase Integrity in Public Service and Prevent Corruption and the Laundering of its Proceeds” in Ashgabat. The workshop featured speakers from the OSCE, UNODC, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Latvia and Serbia and gathered more than 25 representatives of Turkmen banks and government agencies, including the FIU, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Interior. On 9-10 October, the OCEEA, the OSCE Presence in Albania and the FIU of Albania organized a regional gathering of the heads of FIUs in Durres, Albania. The focus of the meeting was on the use of anti-money laundering tools that can be used to prevent and identify corruption. A number of government agencies, including ministries of interior, participated. ****** 44