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The APG’s 2023 Annual Meeting and Technical Assistance and Training (TA&T) Forum was attended by over 300 international delegates during the week of 10 July in Vancouver, British Columbia.

A meeting of the Pacific AML/CFT Supervisors’ Forum was held on 30 May to 1 June 2023 in Auckland, New Zealand.

Three in-person workshops on financial investigations for law enforcement authorities in the Pacific region were conducted between March and May 2023.

Mr Razim Buksh, Director of the Fiji FIU, and head of Fiji’s delegation to the APG for over 20 years, has been presented with a Certificate of Appreciation signed by the APG Co-Chairs.

The APG has recently launched the APG VA and VASP Network for public sector representatives of APG members and observers to share information on challenges, enforcement activities, experiences and policy developments relating to VA and VASPs.

The APG assessment team of Nauru held its pre Mutual Evaluation (ME) meeting with authorities over three days from 23-25 May 2023, virtually via the Zoom platform.

The face-to-face visit for Brunei Darussalam's APG Mutual Evaluation was conducted from 3 to 5 May 2023 in Bandar Seri Begawan. This followed the onside visit conducted in November 2022.

The APG assessment team of Nepal met with authorities over three days from 26 to 28 April 2023 in Kathmandu to discuss the third draft of the mutual evaluation report.

The APG assessment team of Lao PDR met with authorities over three days from 19 to 21 April 2023 in Vientiane to discuss the third draft of the mutual evaluation report.