Foreign Relations of The Cook Islands - International Organization Participation

International Organization Participation

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• AsDB, ESCAP (associate), FAO, ICAO, IMO, ICC, ICFTU, IFAD, IFRCRCS, IOC, OPCW, Pacific Islands Forum, Sparteca, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, UNESCO, WHO, WMO, South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission
• Party to the following treaties and conventions: African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (Cotounu Convention), Biodiversity Convention, Geneva Conventions, Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto protocol, Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, International Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation, Biological Weapons Convention, Convention of the International Mobile Satellite Organization., Facility Agreement with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization

In November 2011, the Cook Islands were one of the eight founding members of Polynesian Leaders Group, a regional grouping intended to cooperate on a variety of issues including culture and language, education, responses to climate change, and trade and investment.