CHAPTER II GOVERNANCE AND ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT This chapter assesses the level of progress in the promotion of good governance and economic management through the implementation of priorities of each objective areas recommended by the APR Panel within the thematic area of Governance and Economic Management. The objectives are as follows: To Promote macroeconomic policies that promote sustainable development; To Implement sound, transparent and predictable government economic policies; To promote sound public financial management; To fight corruption and money laundering; To accelerate regional integration by participating in the harmonisation of monetary, trade and investment policies. Principles, Codes and Standards The APR Panel recommended to the Government of Mozambique that it instruct each of the ministries to keep adequate records of the codes, standards and practices that had been adopted and that had been or are being implemented, as a basis for an adequate monitoring of their mandate (i); that a central depositary be created in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in order to centralize documentation related to Standards, Norms and Practices that have been adopted and that have been or are being implemented as a basis for adequate monitoring of its mandate (ii). 95. Regarding the recommendations of the APR Panel on International Principles, Standards and Norms, this evaluation found that the country has made effort in terms of creating structures for the deposit and management of International Treaties and Conventions signed by the country. In this regard, the Parliament created a division of Parliamentary Documentation that works directly with the Commission for International Relations. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation a section for International Treaties was also created, within the Legal Department which is integrated into the Directorate of Legal and Consular Affairs. 96. The following table contains information related to International Treaties and Conventions signed by the country, between 2007 and 2012. 36

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