[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 78 (Monday, April 23, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20512-20513]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-10006]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice No. 3607]
Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Private International
Law: Study Group on Enforcement of Foreign Judgments: 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 Wednesday,
May 16, 2001, to consider the draft Hague Convention on Jurisdiction
and the Enforcement of Foreign Judgments. The meeting will be held from
9:30 am to 5:00 pm in room 332 of the Federal Trade Commission, 600
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington DC.
The purpose of the Study Group meeting is to assist the Department
of State prepare the U.S. negotiating position for the first diplomatic
session of the Hague Conference June 6-20, 2001 in the Hague, the
Netherlands.
The last formal negotiating session on the project was in October
1999, which produced a preliminary draft convention text. Due to
opposition by the United States and some other delegations to this
text, the Hague Conference decided to postpone the final negotiating
session from October 2000, and to hold it in two parts. The first part
will be in June, and the second part has not yet been scheduled. The
Conference decided that the June session would operate on a consensus
basis, with the ordinary voting rules suspended. For the last several
months, the Hague countries have been engaged in frequent informal
meetings to attempt to narrow their differences and prepare the June
diplomatic negotiating session.
A copy of the preliminary draft convention is available on the
website of the Hague Conference, along with a detailed explanatory
report by Peter Nygh and Fausto Pocar. These documents, together with
other background documents on the negotiations may be found at
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www.hcch.net/e/workprog/jdgm.html>. Persons interested in the work of
the study group or in attending the May 16 study group meeting may also
request copies from Ms. Rosie Gonzales by fax at 202-776-8482, by
telephone at 202-776-8420 (you may leave your request, name, telephone
number, email, or mailing address on the answering machine), or by
email at [email protected]>. Email is the quickest and most
efficient way to transmit the documents.
The study group meeting is open to the public up to the capacity of
the meeting room. Persons wishing to attend should contact Ms. Gonzales
by telephone, fax, or email, providing their name, affiliation,
telephone and fax numbers, and email address. 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 Jeffrey D. Kovar, Assistant Legal Adviser for
Private International Law (L/PIL), Suite 203, South Building, 2430 E
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20037-2851.
Jeffrey D. Kovar,
Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law, Department of
State.
[FR Doc. 01-10006 Filed 4-20-01; 8:45 am]
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