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26–29 September — The Cook Islands all-girls robotic team wins the 2024 FIRST Global Challenge in Athens. [1]23 December – New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters rejects a proposal by Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown for the Cook Islands to have its own passport while retaining New Zealand citizenship.
The Cook Islands maintains diplomatic relations with various countries and is a member of multilateral organisations. While the country is in free association with New Zealand, which can act on the Cook Islands' "delegated authority [...] to assist the Cooks Islands" in foreign affairs, [1] the Cook Islands nevertheless enters into treaty obligations and otherwise "interacts with the ...
The Cook Islands is not a United Nations member state, but, along with Niue, has had their "full treaty-making capacity" recognised by the United Nations Secretariat, [45] [46] and is a full member of the World Health Organization (WHO), UNESCO, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Maritime Organization and the UN ...
The Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs records that in 1988 "New Zealand stated that its future participation in international agreements would no longer extend to" Niue and the Cook Islands. [16] The Cook Islands and Niue were granted membership of UNESCO by 1993 and of the World Health Organization by 1994.
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In late December 2024, Peters clarified that the Cook Islands would not be able to have its own passport, citizenship and United Nations membership without becoming an independent country. Any changes to the territory's constitutional relationship with New Zealand would have to be decided by the Cook Islanders via a referendum. [11] [12]
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