Qatar be­comes the 95th Member of the HCCH

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

On 17 Septem­ber 2026 the State of Qatar de­pos­ited its in­stru­ment of ac­cept­ance of the Stat­ute of the Hague Con­fer­ence on Private In­ter­na­tion­al Law (HCCH), be­com­ing its 95th Member. Ac­cord­ing to the HCCH an­nounce­ment, Qatar thereby became the 160th Con­nec­ted Party.

The in­stru­ment was de­pos­ited at a ce­re­mony at the Min­istry of For­eign Af­fairs of the Neth­er­lands, de­pos­it­ary of the HCCH Stat­ute and Con­ven­tions, where Qatar was rep­res­en­ted by its Am­bas­sad­or to the Neth­er­lands, H.E. Dr Mutlaq bin Majed Al-Qahtani.