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Photo Credit: IOM / Tim Rasmussen (2023)
Apia – Samoa will benefit from the United Nations Countering Terrorist Travel (CT Travel) Programme, a flagship global initiative that assists beneficiary Member States in building their capabilities to detect and counter-terrorists and serious crimes by using Advance Passenger Information (API) and Passenger Name Record (PNR) data to improve the use of international databases with known and suspected terrorists and criminals.
New York, 19 June 2023 – The United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), together with the United Nations Countering Terrorist Travel (‘CT Travel’) Programme partners, organized a hybrid side event, ‘Donors Forum: Highlighting Achievements, Impact, And Lessons Learned’, on the margins of the Third Counter Terrorism Week (CT Week) 2023.
More than 100 participants, including officials from border law enforcement, security and civil aviation agencies from 13 Member States in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), regional and international experts, and representatives from international organizations, attended a regional workshop this week in Cairo on ‘’Setting-Up A Passenger Information Unit and Processing API and PNR’’.
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FOR YOUR INFORMATION: Please note, that for security reasons, some of the announcements will not be displayed on the above calendar prior to the date of the event. To learn more about upcoming events details, please visit the Cooperative Online Platform (COP), or get in contact with the CT Travel Team via email.
The CT Travel Programme completed a virtual deep-dive assessment with Djibouti from 18 to 21 January 2021. The deep
From 7 to 21 December 2020, the CT Travel Programme completed the online "deep-dive" assessment of the Maldives readiness to build its API/PNR programme to detect and interdict Foreign Terrorist Fighters and organized criminals in accordance with UNSCRs 2178, 2396 and 2482.
