- Title: Leaders arrive for milestone anti-corruption summit in London
- Date: 12th May 2016
- Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (MAY 12, 2016) (HOST BROADCASTER POOL) BRITISH PRIME MINISTER DAVID CAMERON ARRIVING FOR ANTI-CORRUPTION CONFERENCE US SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY ARRIVING SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS PHILIP HAMMOND ARRIVING NIGERIAN PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI ARRIVING COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT JUAN MANUEL SANTOS ARRIVING AFGHAN PRESIDENT ASHRAF GHANI ARRIVING SWISS FOREIGN MINISTER DIDIER BURKHALTER ARRIVING
- Embargoed: 27th May 2016 09:24
- Keywords: London England UK tax anti-corruption summit Nigeria Afghanistan John Kerry David Cameron Ashraf Ghani Mohammadu Buhari Philip Hammond
- Location: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
- City: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
- Country: United Kingdom
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA0014HI45S7
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- Story Text: British Prime Minister David Cameron will urge dozens of nations to redouble efforts to combat corruption at a summit meeting on Thursday (May 12).
The opening comes days after he described two of the countries attending as "fantastically corrupt", Nigeria and Afghanistan.
Representatives of about 50 states will attend the anti-corruption conference. Those include the presidents of Afghanistan and Nigeria, which he said were "possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world", when he was caught on camera talking about the conference to Queen Elizabeth this week. Cameron has since said the leaders of both countries are working hard to fight corruption.
Cameron is expected to announce on Thursday that foreign companies that own property in Britain will be forced to make public their true ownership in a register of beneficial ownership information to be launched next month, a senior British official said.
France, the Netherlands, Nigeria and Afghanistan would also commit to launching public registers of true company ownership, Cameron's office said.
Australia, New Zealand, Jordan, Indonesia, Ireland and Georgia will agree to take the initial steps towards making similar arrangements, it added. Some of Britain's Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies have also signed up to share their beneficial ownership registers with other countries.
Cameron put tackling corruption, including tax avoidance, at the heart of his agenda when he hosted a summit of the Group of Eight leading industrialised democracies in 2013.
Thursday's summit, which brings together leaders such as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and a deputy foreign minister from Russia, is seen as a milestone in those efforts. - Copyright Holder: POOL (CAN SELL)
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