Aaron Stein Cook is a

Nauru Nauru, officially the Republic of Nauru, formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies within the Micronesia subregion of Oceania, with its nearest neighbour being Banaba (part of ...

an politician.

Biography

On 18 July 1981, Cook married Corina Shra Detudamo of the

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. Cook unsuccessfully ran to represent the Aiwo Constituency in the

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, as well as

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and June 2010. In 2009, Cook was elected as president of the Nauru Weightlifting Federation. Cook was first elected to parliament in 2013 election, where he unseated Parliament Speaker Godfrey Thoma. Cook was appointed by President

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as Minister for Commerce, Industry & Environment, RONPhos, and the Nauru Rehabilitation Corporation. In parliament, he served on both the Library Committee and the Printing Committee. Cook was re-elected in the 2016 election. Waqa again gave him ministerial appointments, as Minister for RONPhos, the Nauru Rehabilitation Corporation, and the Nauru Utilities Corporation. Cook failed to be re-elected in the 2019 election. Cook again unsuccessfully ran in the 2022 election. In August 2020, businessman Mozammil Gulamabbas Bhojani was convicted by an Australian court of bribing two Nauruan officials, Cook (in his capacity as minister for RONPhos) and RONPhos Chairman Trevor Bernicke, in exchange for favorable phosphate contracts between 2015 and 2017.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cook, Aaron Living people Government ministers of Nauru Members of the Parliament of Nauru People from Aiwo District 21st-century Nauruan politicians Year of birth missing (living people)