ASTANA (Kazakh Foreign Ministry) – At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Netherlands Kazakh Ambassador Magzhan Ilyasov has handed in the document of accession notifying the adoption by Kazakhstan of the Charter of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, the press office of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry has said.

On Tuesday, 6 June 2017, the Republic of Kazakhstan deposited the instrument of accession to the Hague Convention of 23 November 2007 on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance (2007 Child Support Convention). With Kazakhstan’s accession, there are now 38 States and one Regional Economic Integration Organisation that have either signed, ratified or acceded to the 2007 Child Support Convention.

Kazakhstan, which deposited its instrument of acceptance of the Statute, and thus became a Member State of the HCCH, is a Contracting State to seven Hague Conventions and a Protocol, namely:

• Convention of 1 March 1954 on civil procedure
• Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents
• Convention of 15 November 1965 on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters
• Convention of 18 March 1970 on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters
• Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
• Convention of 25 October 1980 on International Access to Justice
• Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption
• Convention of 23 November 2007 on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance
• Protocol of 23 November 2007 on the Law Applicable to Maintenance Obligations

With 83 Members (82 States and the European Union) representing all continents, the Hague Conference on Private International Law is a global inter-governmental organisation. A melting pot of different legal traditions, it develops and services multilateral legal instruments, which respond to global needs.