According to a official statement issued on 27 th June at the conclusion of the three-day 3 rd FATF Plenary meeting of FATF-XXV, "the Jurisdictions no longer subject to the FATF's on-going global AML/CFT compliance process are: Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal and Tanzania." FATF welcomed significant progress made by these countries in improving their respective AML/CFT regime.

The Statement has listed 22 countries that have significant AML/CFT deficiencies for which they have developed an action plan with the FATF. The countries are: Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Argentina, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Iraq, Kuwait, Lao PDR, Namibia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uganda, Yemen and Zimbabwe.

As put by the Statement, "While the situations differ among each jurisdiction, each jurisdiction has provided a written high-level political commitment to address the identified deficiencies. The FATF welcomes these commitments."

A large number of jurisdictions have not yet been reviewed by the FATF. The FATF continues to identify additional jurisdictions, on an on-going basis, that pose a risk to the international financial system.

The FATF and the FATF-style regional bodies (FSRBs) will continue to work with the jurisdictions noted below and to report on the progress made in addressing the identified deficiencies. The FATF calls on these jurisdictions to complete the implementation of action plans expeditiously and within the proposed timeframes.

At the meeting FTAF also reviewed the voluntary tax compliance (VTC) programmes in several jurisdictions.

The FATF adopted new procedures for dealing with VTC programmes with further clarity in terms of monitoring VTCs of member jurisdictions of FSRBs, and urges any country which introduces a VTC programme to apply all AML/CFT measures to such a programme.