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.
The CT Travel Programme will support Samoa to collect and analyze API and PNR data to improve the use of international databases, such as INTERPOL databases, with data relating to known and suspected terrorists and criminals, and enhance information exchange, in accordance with Security Council resolutions 2178 (2014), 2396 (2017), and 2482 (2019), international standards and recommended practices and human rights principles.
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