6 nations join Hague Convention on Child Abduction

Dave Jackson of Family Law Reporter recently reported to the ABA's International Family law Committee that:

"The U.S. has recently accepted the accessions of six countries to the Child Abduction
Convention: it will enter into force between the U.S. and Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
on May 1, and El Salvador, Peru, and the Dominican Republic on June 1.
(The convention is currently in force between the U.S. and the following countries:

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria,
Canada, Chile, China (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macau only),
Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mexico,
Monaco, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Serbia, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey, the United Kingdom (including Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the Falkland
Islands, the Isle of Man, and Montserrat), Uruguay, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.
The following countries have also acceded to the convention, but the U.S. has not yet
accepted their accessions: Belarus, Costa Rica, Fiji, Georgia, Guatemala, Moldova,
Nicaragua, Paraguay, San Marino, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago,
Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.)"