Dr. Walaa Jad Al-Karim, Director of the Partners for Transparency Foundation, said that he agreed on a part of the report prepared by the Special Committee to study the government program with regard to the first axis, defense and national security, related to the performance of civil society organizations, which is related to the demand for the existence of legislation regulating the work of these organizations, Stressing the necessity of issuing this law, as any activity may be harmful or beneficial to national security.
As for what the report calls for prohibiting civil society organizations from receiving them because they harm national security, this is a saying “a right that is intended as void,” stressing that foreign funding is an inherent right of civil society organizations and citizens, according to a resolution issued by the United Nations General Assembly No. 26. 26 of 1970
He explained that this decision stipulates that the rich countries, which previously colonized developing countries and are responsible for the backwardness of their economies, pay an annual equivalent of 7.0 % of their gross national product in the form of grants and aid to developing countries provided to governments or civil society, therefore we are talking about a known share of Egypt from Rich in financing countries.
And Jad Al-Karim added: These countries, during the past 30 years, have found a fundamental problem related to government corruption, and according to the assessment of the donors, they saw that corruption and bureaucracy in governments made the money pumped not produce any results and therefore began to go to civil society.
The director of the Partners for Transparency Foundation added about what the deputies called for the National Security Committee to prohibit organizations from receiving foreign funding, “It is unfortunate that the people's representatives are ignorant of the law and do not have enough information, and I am surprised how the committee calls itself the National Security Committee unaware to banish national security from Basis".
Jad Al-Karim indicated that he was attending a conference in Germany in which a number of these rich countries participated, and there was a tendency for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to integrate civil society in the loans granted by these bodies, which are known only to grant loans to governments.
The committee concerned with studying the defense and national security axis in the government’s program had drawn up a report that includes recommendations on organizing the performance of civil society organizations through the enactment of the necessary legislation, and said in its report that the lack of legislation regulating the work of these organizations harmed national security and demanded the committee to prohibit those organizations from receiving support or funds From foreign countries. parliamentary