El Salvador accedes to the 2007 Child Support Convention
On 6 February 2025, the Republic of El Salvador deposited its instrument of accession to the Convention of 23 November 2007 on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance (2007 Child Support Convention).
With the accession of El Salvador, 53 States and the European Union are bound by the 2007 Child Support Convention. It will enter into force for El Salvador on 7 February 2026. More information on this Convention is available on the Child Support Section of the HCCH website.
At the ceremony, held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, depositary of the HCCH Conventions, El Salvador was represented by H.E. Mr Agustín Vásquez Gómez, Ambassador of El Salvador to the Netherlands, Mr Josué Roberto Liévano, Minister Counselor at the Embassy of El Salvador, and Mr Daniel Starr Tenorio, Counselor at the Embassy of El Salvador. The depositary was represented by Mr Jules van Eijndhoven, Head of the Treaties Division, Mr Rieks Boekholt, Senior Legal Officer at the Treaties Division, and Ms Ines Veldkamp, Country Officer for El Salvador at the Western Hemisphere Department, while the Permanent Bureau of the HCCH was represented by Mr Philippe Lortie, First Secretary (Diplomat Lawyer) and co-Head of the International Family and Child Protection Law Division, and Mr Jean-Marc Pellet, iSupport Coordinator.
El Salvador has been a Member of the HCCH since 2022 and is now a Contracting Party to seven HCCH Conventions.