BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

04/10/2006

Belarus Girl. Adoptions Committee: Requests Are Frozen

(AGI) - Rome, Oct.3 - The International Committee for Adoptions, regarding the news on the missing adoption request of Maria by Mr and Mrs Giusto, informs that the Minsk authorities have frozen all requests for adoption that arrived after 31 Oct 2004. The 150 requests for 169 children that were being examined are still being considered. During the talks for the signing of the bilateral MoU, on 12 Dec 2005, followed by correspondence between the Committee and the Belarus Eductation Ministry, the Minsk authorities constantly reasserted that Italian authorised bodies could lodge new requests only once the ones lodged before Oct 2004 were all examined. If the current situation has changed, we trust in a prompt communication by the Education Ministry, so as to deliver the hundreds of requests that have been frozen for two years. (AGI) -

Source:

http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200610032052-1271-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia

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