REPORT ON COMPLIANCE WITH THE HAGUE CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION.

SEC. 2803. REPORT ON COMPLIANCE WITH THE HAGUE CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION. (a) In General.—Beginning 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act and every 12 months thereafter during the period ending September 30, 1999, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees on the compliance with the provisions of the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, done at The Hague on October 25, 1980, by the signatory countries of the Convention. Each such report shall include the following information: (1) The number of applications for the return of children submitted by United States citizens to the Central Authority for the United States that remain unresolved more than 18 months after the date of filing. (2) A list of the countries to which children in unresolved applications described in paragraph (1) are alleged to have been abducted. (3) A list of the countries that have demonstrated a pattern of noncompliance with the obligations of the Convention with respect to applications for the return of children submitted by United States citizens to the Central Authority for the United States. (4) Detailed information on each unresolved case described in paragraph (1) and on actions taken by the Department of State to resolve each such case. (5) Information on efforts by the Department of State to encourage other countries to become signatories of the Convention. (b) Definition.—In this section, the term “Central Authority for the United States” has the meaning given the term in Article 6 of the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, done at The Hague on October 25,1980.