America will help Saakashvili to reform customs in Odessa

The head of the Odessa region, Mikhail Saakashvili, and US Undersecretary of State Bill Brownfield signed a memorandum of cooperation to create a single center for administrative services and to reform the customs.

The United States will also assist in the provision of free legal services to volunteers and police training. As Brownfield noted, the United States will help the Saakashvili team make the order of selection of personnel open and transparent.

“This procedure will provide personnel who will not engage in corruption. We are ready to work together with the governor’s team to involve civil society in all anti-corruption efforts,” Brownfield said, emphasizing that the United States fully supports the anti-corruption fight in Odessa.

According to Saakashvili, a single service will start working in Odessa, which will deal with issues of corruption.

Saakashvili noted that the United States will help fight corruption and organized crime, as this is a big problem in Odessa.

During the signing of the memorandum, it was also noted that the US is actively involved in the creation of a new administrative services center, and in August Odessa will begin to patrol the new police, whose employees are being helped to train American instructors.

Saakashvili also stressed that the United States first signed such a memorandum with a separate Ukrainian region.