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Spanish Adoption Rates Hit All-Time High

Wednesday, May 04 2005 @ 11:38 PM Central Daylight Time

Spain has become Europe’s first country and the world’s second after the United States in adopting foreign children as marriage and birth rates in the southern European country are hitting all-time low.

The latest government statistics showed that foreign adoptees in 2004 reached 6,000 with a 40% increase compared to the previous year.

The statistics indicate that adoptive parents go abroad, bringing about 80 percent of the overall number of adopted children and then finalizing legal adoption requirements at home.

ROMANIA: DEMARCHE CONCERNING PENDING INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION CASES

Date:2005 April 29, 12:47 (Friday) Canonical ID:05BUCHAREST1062_a

Original Classification:CONFIDENTIAL Current Classification:CONFIDENTIAL

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Parliamentary questions

25 April 2005

E-1540/05

WRITTEN QUESTION by Mairead McGuinness (PPE?DE) to the Commission

Subject: The roll-out of national pilot projects for the reform of state institutions in Romania

Social: Bra?ov: La orfelinatul lui ?iriac, copiii se instruiesc în 'arta' evad?rii

Reprezentan?ii Complexului Poiana Soarelui din Bra?ov, patronat de omul de afaceri Ion ?iriac, se plâng c? pu?tiul Cosmin Buc?taru, cel care a fugit în urm? cu pu?in timp, i-a ar?tat calea spre libertate unui alt copil.

La mai bine dup? o lun? ?i jum?tate de la fuga Florentinei Goroh-Pinni din „Casa Soarelui”, reprezentan?ii complexului au dat primele declara?ii c?tre pres?. În tot acest timp, conducerea centrului a p?strat t?cerea. Ceea ce i-a revoltat pe reprezentan?ii Centrului a nu a fost atitudinea acid? a presei bra?ovene, cât faptul c? informa?iile prezentate au avut un impact negativ asupra copiilor din centru.

Consiliere telefonic?

Printre altele, conducerea Complexului „Poiana Soarelui” se plânge de faptul c? unul dintre copiii care au fugit din centru, Cosmin Buc?taru a devenit „consilier” pentru ceilal?i copii. Folosindu-se de metode moderne, Buc?taru l-a înv??at pe Constantin Urde?, un prieten din centru, care sunt etapele pe care trebuie s? le parcurg? pentru a sc?pa de traiul în Poiana Sorelui.

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MADAGASCAR

DIPLOMACY

n°1131 - 16/04/2005

Adoptions issue soon to be settled

The government of Prime Minister Jacques Sylla has set a priority in settling the question of adoptions by French families of around 150 Madagascan children before President Jacques Chirac comes to Antananarivo for the summit of the Commission de l'Océan Indien (COI), in July this year. These applications for adoption were frozen in August 2004 by the Malagasy administration which was keen to draft a new bill on the matter after having broken up a child trafficking network. During his recent meeting in Antananarivo with the French Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Renaud Muselier, Sylla promised to settle the adoption cases within three months. However, the cases in question have to go through four different ministries before getting Sylla's approval, which has already been granted, and finally that of President Marc Ravalomanana. This should not pose a problem with three of the ministries (justice, foreign affairs, interior). However, the French families waiting for their applications for adoption to be approved have found the bottleneck is with the ministry of population, social protection and leisure, whose minister is M. Zafilaza. These families informed Muselier of the issue, who mentioned the matter to Sylla and also to the French ambassador to Antananarivo Catherine Boivineau. In Muselier's office, it is a technical advisor of Madagascan origin, Irchad Ramiandrasoa Razaaly, who is in charge of this delicate matter and who is in regular contact with the French prospective adoption families. Joking about this situation, Muselier declared during a reception at the French embassy in Antananarivo, that he had ?adopted a Madagascan? to handle the issue. Irchad Razaaly, who has studied law at Antananarivo University, still has many friends in Antananarivo, one of which is Barijaona aka Bary-Ramaholimiaso who is one of the directors of BNI-CL, and Dominique Rakotomalala of the Fondation Friedrich Ebert.