To be accompanied by a number of United Indonesia Cabinet ministers, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to open the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in the island resort of Bali on Monday, ANTARA reported. "The president and his entourage will arrive at Ngurah Rai international airport here on Sunday afternoon," Bali provincial administration spokesman Anak Agung Gede Bagus Netra said here on Saturday. "President Yudhoyono on Monday will open the UNCAC meeting at an international hotel in Nusa Dua before returning to Jakarta on the same day," Agung Netra said. The five-day conference of UNCAC will be held at Bali International Convention Center/BICC, Westin Resorts in Nusa Dua from January 28 to February 1, 2008. Agung Netra said the conference would be attended by around 1,300 delegates from 140 countries, 284 non-governmental organizations, 21 national and international organizations, and covered by about 1,300 local and foreign journalists. The UN Convention against Corruption was adapted by UN General Assembly on October 31, 2003. It entered into force on December 14, 2005, following the 30th ratification by Ecuador on September 15 at the 2005 World Summit.
