PM and U.S. Ambassador Tackle Adoption Issue

From the Bucharest Daily News. I still believe there is hope for all the adoption cases to be approved and move forward. Once Romania gets into the EU, American bases become a reality, and the spotlight is off them. I am betting they will let the adoptions proceed. The question is - How many children will be permanently harmed before all this happens????

PM and U.S. Ambassador tackle adoption issue
Denisa Maruntoiu

Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu met with the U.S. Ambassador to Bucharest Nicholas Taubman yesterday at the government' palace in order to tackle several important issues related to the bilateral relations between Romania and the U.S.

According to the government's press release, Tariceanu and Taubamn held talks about several U.S. investment projects in Romania, but also about the issue of the ban on international adoptions.

Tariceanu said that the Romanian Office for Adoptions is carefuly analyzing each adoption case in accordance with the new law on international adoptions and that it will send the reports to each foreign family that had issued an adoption request. At the begining of December 2005 the government rejected all the international adoption requests.

The authorities decided not to approve the 1,100 international adoption requests Romania has received in the past four years, the head of the Romanian Office for Adoptions (ORA) Theodora Bertzi said.

According to Bertzi, the authorities' decision not to allow the adoptions was made at the end of November when the ORA completed the evaluation of all the requests, which had come from 24 different countries including the U.S., Spain, Germany, and Greece during October 2001 to December 2003.