PUBLIC LAW 105-277—OCT. 21, 1998 112 STAT. 2681-846 (b) PROTECTION OF IDENTITY OF CONCERNED ENTITIES.— In preparing the report under subsection (a), the names of entities shall not be identified under paragraph (1) or (4). SEC. 2803. REPORT ON COMPLIANCE WITH THE HAGUE CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDt CTION. (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 CIonvention 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 tak(3n 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 t(3rm "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. SEC. 2804. SENSE OF CONGRESS RELATING TO RECOGNITION OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE BY THE GOVERNMENT OF TURKEY. It is the sense of Congress that the United States should use its influence with the Government of Turkey to suggest that the Government of Turkey— (1) recognize the Ecumenical Patriarchate and its nonpolitical, religious mission; (2) ensure the continued maintensince of the institution's physical security needs, as provided for under Turkish and international law, including the Treaty of Lausanne, the 1968 Protocol, the Helsinki Final Act (1973), and the Charter of Paris; (3) provide for the proper protection and safety of the Ecumenical Patriarch and Patriarchate personnel; and (4) reopen the Ecumenical Patriarchate's HaIki Patriarchal School of Theology. SEC. 2805. REPORT ON RELATIONS WITH VIETPJAM. In order to provide Congress with the necessary information by which to evaluate the relationship between the United States
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