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Ella Pamfilova, the head of Russia"s Civil Society Institution and Human Rights Council, said after the meeting of a working group within the Russian-U.S. presidential commission that under the deal Transparency International agreed "to jointly monitor corruption in Russia and in the United States and to develop universal corruption evaluation criteria."
"There was no agreement between Transparency International and Russian negotiators," the organization"s Media and Public Relations Manager Gypsy Guillen Kaiser said in a letter to RIA Novosti. However, she admits that NGOs participating in the meeting agreed to collaborate and share information on ways to research, tackle and monitor corruption in their respective countries.
"There was no agreement to develop universal corruption evaluation criteria within six months," she added. "NGOs present agreed to exchange views on ways to research corruption and methods for monitoring implementation of anti-corruption plans."