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The U.S. State
Department has now issued its 2023 Action Report on International Child
Abduction.
Argentina has
been declared by the State Department to be noncompliant with the Hague Abduction
Convention for each and every year for the past eight years.
The State
Department has reported to Congress that within the past year it has taken the
following actions in this regard against Argentina:
·
Department officials, in Washington, DC and at
the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires, continued to raise concerns with Government
of Argentina officials about Argentina’s demonstration of a pattern of
noncompliance.
·
In July 2022, the U.S. Ambassador to Argentina
raised U.S. concerns about Argentina’s demonstration of a pattern of
noncompliance with the Argentine Minister of Foreign Affairs, International
Trade, and Worship.
·
In August 2022, officials at the U.S. Embassy in
Buenos Aires met with the Director of the Argentine Central Authority to
discuss international parental child abduction issues.
·
In September 2022, the Consul General at the
U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires met with counterparts at the French Embassy in
Buenos Aires to discuss shared experiences with Argentina’s implementation of
the Convention, specifically significant delays within the Argentine judiciary.
This collaboration will allow the Department to target multilateral diplomacy
initiatives and identify like-minded countries to explore areas of
collaboration.
·
In May 2023, the Office of the Spokesperson
released a media note to announce the release of the 2023 Annual Report on
International Child Abduction and listed Argentina as a country cited for
demonstrating a pattern of noncompliance.
·
Also in May 2023, the Deputy Chief of Mission at
U.S. Embassy Buenos Aires delivered a demarche to the Argentine Undersecretary
for Foreign Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade,
and Worship. The Deputy Chief of Mission notified the Government of Argentina
that the Department cited Argentina in the 2023 Annual Report on International
Child Abduction for demonstrating a pattern of noncompliance in 2022. This
demarche highlighted Argentina’s persistent failure to comply with its
Convention obligations. In particular, the demarche noted U.S. concerns with
serious judicial delays and a legal system that allows multiple appeals both on
the merits of the decision and on how decisions are enforced.
Jeremy D. Morley
has provided expert evidence to courts in several U.S. states on such matters
concerning Argentina.
