The Cook Islands is party to a range of bilateral and multilateral treaties and agreements, covering areas including fisheries, civil aviation, taxation, climate, disarmament and regional cooperation.
What we are working on
The Ministry leads the negotiation and ratification of the agreement on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ). Implementation will be led through Marae Moana, not by a single line agency.
The Ministry administers the legislation giving domestic effect to several of those instruments.
- Anti-Personnel Mines Act 2007
- Chemical Weapons (Prohibition) Act 2007
- Nuclear-Test-Ban Act 2007
- United Nations (Security Council Resolutions) Act 2003
- Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols Act 2002, and its 2011 amendment
- Cook Islands Red Cross Society Act 2002
The register
A register of each instrument, with the date it entered into force and a link to the text where one is available, will be published here.
Until then, email [email protected] or call +682 29 347, Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 4:00pm.