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The U.S. State Department has now issued its 2023 Action
Report on International Child Abduction.
Romania has been declared by the State Department to be non-compliant with the Hague Abduction Convention.
The State Department has reported to
Congress that within the past year it has taken the following actions in this
regard against Romania:
·
Department officials, in Washington, DC, and at
the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest, continued to raise concerns about Romania’s
demonstration of a pattern of noncompliance with Government of Romania
officials.
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In October 2022, Department officials and U.S.
Embassy Bucharest officials met with the Romanian Central Authority to raise
concerns over the lack of enforcement of Convention return orders, as well as
judicial delays. In May 2023, the Senior Consular Representative at the U.S.
Mission to the European Union informed the EU of Romania’s citation.
·
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 Romania as a country cited for
demonstrating a pattern of noncompliance.
·
On June 13, 2023, U.S. Embassy Bucharest
delivered a demarche to the Romanian government stating the Department had
cited Romania in the 2023 Annual Report for demonstrating a pattern of
noncompliance and requesting assistance in resolving the existing abduction
cases.
Jeremy D.
Morley has provided expert evidence to courts in several U.S. states on such
matters concerning Romania.
