Government type:

Self-governing parliamentary democracy; in free association with New Zealand

Objectives:

• Accession to the Rome Statute

Status

• Rome Statute: Not signed or acceded

• APIC: not signed or acceded

• Amendments to the RS: none

• BNSA: none

Background:

Niue is not a UN Member State. Like Cook Islands (which became a State Party to the RS thanks to the leadership initiative of a PGA Member who served in 2008 as co-chair of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly), Niue decided not to become a UN Member States, as it would have entailed a renunciation of NZ citizenship. 

PGA Activities

PGA will continue to use the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly as a forum in which to push for the implementation of Art. 11.7 of the revised Cotonou Agreement via inter-parliamentary dialogue to be carried out by PGA Members of the European Parliament and PGA Members from National delegations from Parliament of Africa, the Caribbean and/or the Pacific.