CTED's maritime team, including INTERPOL, IMO, and IOM, join their Fijian counterparts for a deep-dive into Fiji's maritime security measures.
The United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), acting on behalf of the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee, concluded a so-called focused visit to Fiji from 12 to 15 November 2022. The visit concentrated on measures introduced by Fiji to implement certain aspects of Security Council resolutions 1373 (2001), 2178 (2014), and 2396 (2017) and other relevant Council resolutions.
During the visit, the delegation — which was led by the CTED Chief of Section for the Americas and Asia Pacific and included also other CTED experts, as well as representatives of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Asia-Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG), the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) — conducted a series of technical meetings in Suva, as well as on-site visits to Nadi International Airport and the Port of Suva. In addition, on the margins of the focused visit to Fiji, CTED conducted a strategic meeting with the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat in Suva.
Thematic areas covered during the visit included counter-terrorism legislation, criminal justice, and international cooperation in criminal matters; anti-money-laundering (AML)/countering the financing of terrorism (CFT); law enforcement; border management, including maritime security; and information and communications technologies (ICT). In accordance with the practice followed for the Committee’s previous visits, the discussions also included human rights aspects of Fiji’s counter-terrorism measures, as well as its incorporation of the gender dimension and the roles of women in countering terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism, in line with Security Council resolutions 2242 (2015) and 2395 (2017).
CTED’s Flickr album with photos from the visit can be accessed .