[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 165 (Friday, August 25, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44374-44375]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-21098]



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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice No. 2244]


Meeting of Protection of Minors Study Group of the Secretary of 
State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law

    The first meeting of the Study Group on the Protection of Minors 
will take place on Friday, September 8, 1995 in the large conference 
room in the South Building, Navy Hill, west of the main Department of 
State building, from 9:30 a.m. to about 4:30 p.m.
    The purpose of the meeting is to review and provide expert guidance 
on the preliminary draft of a convention (multilateral treaty) that was 
prepared by a special commission of the international organization 
known as the Hague Conference on Private International Law. That 
organization decided in 1993 to prepare by 1996 a convention revising 
the 1961 Hague Convention on the Competence of Authorities and the Law 
Applicable to the Protection of Minors. The draft revised convention 
addresses various aspects of parental responsibility, rights of 
custody, the designation and functions of any person or institution 
charged with responsibility for a child's person or property, 
jurisdiction, applicable law, the recognition and enforcement of 
measures of protection taken, and international cooperation to achieve 
the objectives of the convention.
    Guidance on the draft convention that will be the basic working 
document at the third session of the special commission of the Hague 
Conference at The Hague on September 11-22, 1995 will be crucial to the 
effective participation of the U.S. delegation in that session. The 
draft convention emerging from that session will form the basic working 
document for the next intergovernmental diplomatic conference of the 
Hague Conference itself in October 1996, at the conclusion of which the 
convention is to be ready for signature and ratification.
    Copies of documents consisting of the preliminary draft convention, 
conclusions resulting from the second special commission session in 
February 1995, and a set of issues to be discussed at the study group 
meeting may be obtained by contacting Ms. R. Gonzales by fax at (202) 
776-8482 or by writing to Ms. Gonzales, Office of the Legal Adviser (L/
PIL), Suite 203 South Building, 2430 ``E'' Street NW., Washington, DC 
20037-2800.
    Members of the general public may attend the September 8 meeting up 
to the capacity of the conference room, subject to the direction of the 
Chair. Access to the South Building grounds (``Navy Hill'') is 
controlled, and those planning to attend should notify Ms. Gonzales 
(telephone: (202) 776-8420; fax: (202) 776-8482) not later than 
Wednesday, September 6, of their name, affiliation, address, phone 
number, date of birth and social security number. Persons interested in 
the project but unable to attend are welcome to request documents and 
submit written comments or proposals by fax or letter 

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to the fax number or address in the preceding paragraph.
    No parking on site is available. Attendees should seek admission at 
the gate to ``Navy Hill'' on the west side of 23rd Street N.W. at the 
level of ``D'' Street N.W. across from the NW corner of Main State 
Department building and ask the guard to direct them to the South 
Building, where the meeting is in the conference room (Room 240) at the 
west end of the 2nd Floor.
Peter H. Pfund,
Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law, Vice-Chair, 
Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law.
[FR Doc. 95-21098 Filed 8-24-95; 8:45 am]
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