Cotidianul - America wants Children with Romania

Cotidianul writes today about a resolution passed in the U.S. Congress regarding Romania's policy on international adoptions with an emphasis on asking the latter to relax the rules for foreigners who want to adopt Romanian children.

The day Basescu arrived in the States, the U.S. Senate adopted a resolution regarding the relaxing of the international adoption ban by Romania. The superior chamber of the U.S. Congress unanimously passed the resolution according to which the American authorities will ask the Romanian government to relax the international adoptions policy, almost four months after the House of Representatives voted an identical resolution. Moreover, the date the paper was signed, July 27, according to which the American senators reinforced the lobby for Romanian children, coincided with the arrival of Romanian President Traian Basescu in America for an official visit. The text of the two resolution papers maintains word by word that Romania still has major problems regarding the abandoned and institutionalized children that allegedly reaches a number that is considerably greater than the one of the children who are adopted nationally. As a consequence, congressmen want the modification of the Romanian legislation so that Romanian children are able to be internationally adopted, but they also want the conclusion of the analysis regarding pipeline cases (involving over 200 children). However, this request was met by Romania at the end of March. The text of the resolution states that the U.S. requests the European Union "not to impede the efforts of the Romanian government to place orphaned or abandoned children into permanent families, in a manner that agrees with Romania's obligations to the Hague Convention." Sources within the U.S. Congress told us last week in Washington that giving up visas before entering American territory will depend greatly, among other things, on the change of the international adoptions regime in Romania. Concretely, the above mentioned sources said that Americans clearly want international adoptions to be resumed in Romania.