EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

Migration (Côte d’Ivoire - United Nations Security Council Resolutions) Regulations 2005

PERSONS SUBJECT TO UNSCR MEASURES CONCERNING CÔTE D’IVOIRE

(REGULATION 5)

1. This Instrument is made under Regulation 5 of the Migration (Côte d’Ivoire – United Nations Security Council Resolutions) Regulations 2005.

2.                  Regulation 5 provides that the Minister may specify in a Gazette Notice a person whose name appears on a list of individuals published by the Committee, and who is subject to measures imposed by a United Nations Security Council Resolution concerning               Côte d’Ivoire. 

3.                  United Nations Security Council Resolution 1572 (2004) on Côte d’Ivoire created a Committee which, among other things, designates individuals subject to travel restrictions.  These individuals have been determined by the Committee to constitute a threat to the peace and national reconciliation process in Côte d’Ivoire.   On 7 February 2006 the UN Security Council issued a press release advising of a decision made by the Committee to approve a list of individuals subject to the travel restrictions.  The purpose of the Instrument is to specify the list of individuals subject to travel restrictions imposed by the Committee.

4.                   This Instrument is being made based on information provided by the Security Council Committee.

5.                   The Instrument, IMMI 06/012, commences on the day it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.