[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 24 (Friday, February 4, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5717-5718]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-2548]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice No. 3189]


Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Private International

    Law: Study Group Related to the Protection of Children Conventions 
and Agreements; Meeting notice
    There will be a public meeting of a Study Group of the Secretary of 
State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law on Saturday, 
February 26, 2000, to discuss international protection of children 
issues. The meeting will be held from 9:30 to 4:30

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p.m. in room 208 Vanderbilt Hall, New York University School of Law, 40 
Washington Square South, New York, New York 10012. The meeting is 
scheduled to follow the Sixth Annual Herbert and Rose L. Rubin 
Symposium on International Law taking place at the School of Law on 
Friday, February 25, 2000, presented by the Journal of International 
Law and Politics: ``Celebrating Twenty Years: The Past and Promise of 
the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child 
Abduction.''
    The purpose of the Study Group meeting is to assist the State 
Department develop United States policy in regard to existing and 
possible future international arrangements governing the protection of 
children. Discussions will center on the 1980 Hague Convention on the 
Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction; the 1996 Hague 
Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement 
and Cooperation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for 
the Protection of Children; United States bilateral arrangements for 
the enforcement of family support obligations, state arrangements for 
the enforcement of family support obligations, the 1956 United Nations 
Convention on the Recovery of Maintenance Abroad, and the proposed 
development of a new Hague convention on the enforcement of maintenance 
obligations.
    Presentations by experts, both domestic and foreign, at the New 
York University symposium on Friday will provide a comprehensive 
background on the 1980 Abduction and 1996 Protection Conventions. In 
particular, the Study Group will consider the advisability of seeking 
signature and ratification of the 1996 Convention. The issues covered 
by these conventions are also related to the extent and effectiveness 
of international maintenance enforcement and the feasibility of the 
United States concluding bilateral arrangements. The experience of the 
United States at the federal and state level with bilateral 
arrangements will affect the policy positions to be taken by the United 
States in its continuing consideration of such arrangements and in 
participating in the development of a new multilateral maintenance 
convention by the Hague Conference on Private International Law.
    Persons interested in the Study Group or in attending the February 
26 meeting in New York may request copies of the conventions to be 
discussed, the United States legislation authorizing bilateral 
arrangements and the report of the 1999 Hague Conference meeting on 
maintenance conventions. These documents may be requested from Ms. 
Rosie Gonzales by fax at (202) 776-8482, by telephone at (202) 776-8420 
(you may leave your request, name, telephone number and mailing address 
on the answering machine) or by email to [[email protected]].
    The Study Group meeting is open to the public up to the capacity of 
the meeting room. Persons who wish to attend the meeting should notify 
Ms. Gonzales no later than February 23, and also provide their company 
or organization affiliation, mailing and email addresses and fax and 
telephone numbers. Any person who is unable to attend, but wishes to 
have his or her views considered, may send comments to Ms. Gonzales at 
the above fax number or email address or may address them to the office 
of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law (L/PIL), 
Suite 203, South Building, 2430 E Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037-
2856.
    Persons who are also interested in and want information about the 
symposium on Friday, February 25 should contact Ms. Karin Wolfe, Senior 
Symposium Editor, Journal of International Law and Politics, New York 
University School of Law, 110 West Third Street, New York, NY 10012-
1074; phone: (212) 998-6520, fax: (212) 995-4032.

Jeffrey D. Kovar,
Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law.
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