ROMANIANS CAN TAKE CARE OF THEIR OWN

From Agenda Zilei Friday, Jan. 27, 2006

Author: Daniela Baranga

ROMANIANS CAN TAKE CARE OF THEIR OWN

President Traian Basescu stated yesterday that the current progress with regard to Romania's children confirms the correctness of his attitude regarding the necessity of stopping international adoptions, an attitude he expressed while PSD was in power. He asserted that he was correct in launching a campaign for stopping the adoption of children born in Romania.

Basescu affirmed with regard to a meeting yesterday at Cotroceni Palace in which children from the program "Children for Romania-Open Horizons" participated, that, "I saw how involved these children were for other children." Baroness Emma Nicholson, co-president of the "High Level Group for Romania's Children", writer J.K. Rowling author of the Harry Potter Series also participated.

The President added that Romanians have demonstrated, after the stopping of international adoptions, that they are "A people who can take care of their own children." Basescu thanked Baroness Emma Nicholson for the fact that she had fought for the closure of the orphanages, which "generate people without warmth".