Commission of Integrity and Iraqi media figures are seeking to develop a draft charter of joint cooperation between different media and CoI within the framework of the national Anti corruption campaign to spread the culture of integrity and to create behaviors that reject such creepy practices in daily life.

This approach of cooperation was reached through deep discussions in the meeting last Thursday attainted by the CoI commissioner Judge Alla Jawad Hameed and  a number of leaders and representatives of the Iraqi satellite channels and other audio, visual and print media.

 Media leaders in the meeting agreed with the vision presented by Judge Alla who insisted that the CoI as an institution ,  single-handedly, can not take upon itself the great national mission to address the danger of corruption which by no means less than the threat of terrorism, unless all parties would sharpen sincere minds and apply themselves to carry the banner of integrity and lining up in one row overall corruption so that they can expose it as crime threatening the lives of citizens and the future of the nation.

During the meeting, all opinions cleared that all parties to this charter are necessarily abide by the framework employing their full potentials, tool and means to fight corruption and to address all forms of crime against society, rejecting any excuses  to corruption and not to protect corrupts from prosecuting by law under pretexts of job title or political affiliation or for ethnic, religious or sectarian discriminations.

The terms of the draft charter require that the judiciary authorities have the final decisions on crimes of corruption and its perpetrators, also to response to any attempt from any party to influence  making judgments on criminals.

Audiences stressed including the charter an item that would ensure not to use the issue of integrity or fighting corruption as a tool to achieve political ends or to employ them as winning cards in the hands of particular parties against other parties which would change the course of this national task from its lofty goals in creating a society free from corruption.

Remarks from attendance have focused on the importance of the role of the investigative journalism in supporting the CoI to fulfill its national mission by tracking and tracing the manifestations of corruption and shedding the light on the precise details of its networks discovering hands behind them.

Other speakers warned of the danger of the destructive role of some media ( as Fourth Authority) which lend themselves to sell the honor of their career and turn into  polling stations for the befits of internal and external parties, and contribute to destruction the structure of the national unity and hinder or prevent rebuilding of the state on the well sold foundations that would ensure all citizens live in prosperity in an atmosphere of true democracy.

The CoI commissioner, his deputy judge Ezzat tawfeek and Mr. Hassan Atty, the CoI spokesman, in response to the  questions of journalists and audience, they made it clear that delay in taking decisions of verdicts in some of cases related to corruption is due to the need for the investigators to reach the highest degree of accuracy in proof of facts or in deny the charges, so that the verdicts be fair and non-invasive. They pointed to the need of dealing accurately with issues related to corruption or integrity and working in large transparency to make the true picture of the situation in Iraq available to citizens and foreign observers  and not to fall in the slides of some parties that want to portray the country as if it in the slope which is not possible to override its pitfalls neither be out of its swamp.