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The joint UN/INTOSAI interregional seminar on "The Role of Supreme Audit Institutions in Auditing Public Works" was held from 16 to 20 March 1998 in Vienna, Austria. This event was the 13th interregional seminar organised by the Division of Public Economics and Public Administration, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), in conjunction with the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI). In the past, DESA had initiated several training programmes, designed to support developing countries in strengthening their government audit systems. As part of these training activities, the United Nations, together with INTOSAI, organised international training programmes on government audit at biannual intervals. In the past 27 years, twelve such events took place, which dealt with the following topics...