Access current United Nations Security Council sanctions resources, Cook Islands legal documents, and clear pathways for dealing with a potential sanctions match.
The Cook Islands is committed to preventing its people, businesses and financial system from being used to support terrorism or the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Targeted financial sanctions restrict dealing with designated persons and entities. Under the Cook Islands framework, a designation may freeze assets and make it a criminal offence to deal with property, provide financial services, or otherwise support a designated entity.
Names may be recorded with aliases, alternative spellings and incomplete identifiers. Review the full UN entry and the relevant sanctions regime before deciding whether a potential match is genuine.
Sanctions lists can change. Use the current UN webpages below rather than relying on an old downloaded spreadsheet or a saved copy of the list.
The UN Security Council Consolidated List brings together individuals and entities subject to Security Council measures. Each entry remains linked to the specific sanctions regime that governs it.
View the current list in the formats provided by the United Nations, together with identifiers and information about the applicable sanctions committee.
Search names and available identifiers through the official UN sanctions search service. Review any result against the full listing information.
The pages below explain the relevant measures, listing criteria, exemptions and procedures. They replace the dated spreadsheet links on the older FSC page.
Official information concerning listed individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida.
Official information on the 1988 sanctions measures and the list of individuals and entities associated with the Taliban.
Official information on sanctions measures concerning the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, including financial and proliferation-related measures.
Resolution 1373 requires states to act against terrorist financing and related activity but does not itself name a single global list of designated entities. Check current Cook Islands legislation and official notices for any domestic designation.
These documents establish the domestic framework referred to by the FSC. Read the legislation itself and obtain legal advice where necessary.
The principal legislation provides for terrorist-entity designations and offences relating to terrorism and proliferation activity.
Amendments made in 2017 should be read together with the principal legislation when considering the current domestic framework.
The regulations set out supporting requirements for the Cook Islands targeted financial sanctions regime.
The summaries on this page do not replace the legislation or professional legal advice. If there is any inconsistency, the legislation and current official designation information prevail.
An individual, group, undertaking or entity seeking removal from a UN sanctions list must use the procedure that applies to the relevant sanctions regime.
The Office of the Ombudsperson receives delisting requests concerning the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida sanctions list.
The UN Focal Point receives delisting requests for sanctions lists other than the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida list, subject to the applicable procedure.
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