USA and EU force reopening international adoptions from Romania
Tuesday, 27 October 2009 03:35
HIGH LEVEL EXTERNAL PRESSURE
USA and EU force reopening international adoptions from Romania
Letter to Mr. Cristian Diaconescu From Mrs. Hilarry Clinton
Jurnalul National came into possession of an official document of the U.S. Congress, in which 8 senators and 13 members of the American Congress ask the Romanian Government, since May, to reopen international adoptions. In parallel, the Committee on the Rights of the Child has given the same "advice" following the presentation of the country report of Romania in Geneva on June 5.
European Commission and Romanian Office for Adoptions quietly force to reopen international adoptions
- REPORTING FROM BRUSSELS - Romanian Office for Adoptions prepares sincealmost 3 months to modify law 273 of 2004, the law that stopped the trafficking ofchildren from Romania to other countries, under the guise of international adoptions.
ORA officials have not acted on their own, but with the support ofinterest groups in the U.S., Italy, France and other countries.
These groups were used by a Directorate of the European Commission, which will hold a conference for the reopening of international adoptions from Romania, on 31 November and 1 December in Strasbourg.
The European Commission requires changing of the law, imposed by itself as a condition of our entry in the EU. Jurnalul National was able to look into the corridors of these international operations, with the help of a source inside the European Commission, whose identity we will protect for understandable reasons.
ROMANIANS WAITED FOR THE RESIGNATION OF THE GOVERNMENT
The Romanian Office for Adoptions paved the way for amendments to the law prohibiting international adoptions since the summer, when they organised two conferences, both held in Timisoara. The first took place in early September and referred to the rights of the adopted child. Here were assembled all the directors of the child protection directorates in the country for a central database for the adoption process, data about the number of adoptable children and of adoptions in process. A second conference was also held in Timisoara, away from the eyes of the EU mission in Bucharest.
