The Foreign Ministry will in September introduce a virtual visitation system to enable parents to meet children who have been abducted by their estranged partners under the Hague convention on cross-border custody disputes.
Set to be the first of the convention's 93 signatory countries to introduce such a system, the videoconferencing facility will be offered for parents seeking child visitation rights, a ministry official said on Friday.
"We thought meeting through the Internet is a practical means, given that children and separated partners are living far from each other in other countries," the official said.
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