Day: 24th May 2019

A/73/L84/Rev1 presented by Mauritius pertaining to the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the legal consequences of the separation of the Chagos Archipelago by the United Kingdom (UK) from Mauritius without the consent of the Mauritian people

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Six countries, including the United Kingdom, have voted against while 56 have abstained from the vote. 

The Draft Resolution was tabled Wednesday at the UN General Assembly by the Permanent Representative of Senegal on behalf of the States Members of the United Nations that are members of the Group of African States.  It calls for the termination of the unlawful colonial administration as rapidly as possible, and for Member States, UN agencies and international organisations to cooperate with the General Assembly in bringing about the full decolonisation of Mauritius as well as refraining from acts that would impede the performance of that obligation.

Mauritius is reinforcing its Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism framework and to that effect a Bill was passed in the National Assembly yesterday.

The Anti-Money Laundering and Combatting the Financing of Terrorism and Proliferation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019 amends 18 existing enactments with a view to meeting international standards of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on anti-money laundering and combatting the financing of terrorism and activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, as well as to provide for matters related thereto.