Declaratiile Secretarului de Stat de la ORA, Theodora Bertzi, sunt de- a dreptul cutremuratoare. Culmea este ca domnia sa recunoaste ca "nu intelege" ce se intimpla (vezi declaratiile sale de mai jos). Doamna Bertzi afirma ca o eventuala schimbare a legilor actuale ce interzic adoptia internationala, ar fi contrara dreptului international. Nimic mai fals! Schimbarea in sensul permiterii unor categorii de copii sa fie adoptati international, ar readuce Romania in rindul tarilor care respecta Conventia de la Haga si Conventia ONU privind drepturile copiilor!!!
Pentru mine e clar ca doamna Bertzi ori nu intelege, ori se face ca nu intelege. In ambele situatii, intr-o tara democrata, asemenea declaratii s-ar lasa cu cereri de demisie. Florin Rapan Aici gasiti comentarii de la alte persoane la declaratiile doamnei Bertzi: http://www.daily-news.ro/comments.php?idarticle=24169 ***************************** Adoptions office asks for halt of foreign pressure on inter-country adoptions Alecs Iancu "I am appalled by the recent statements of several European lawmakers about changing the law referring to inter-country adoptions. (...) We are responsible, we want to do our job and not under pressure," said the head of the Romanian Office for Adoptions, Theodora Bertzi yesterday. The state secretary asked for foreign officials who have recently insisted that "pipeline" cases (those cases of inter-country adoptions that remained unresolved following the implementation last year of a ban on inter- country adoptions) be settled to trust the decision of the Romanian authorities and stop pressing for a quick resolution of these cases. The ban on inter-country adoptions entered into effect at the beginning of the year, following pressures from the former rapporteur for Romania, MEP Baroness Emma Nicholson. At the time, Nicholson pleaded for stopping inter- country adoptions as they were believed to favor human trafficking networks. In the last few days, Bucharest Daily News has published several interviews with members of the European Parliament, showing that Nicholson's view is not shared by everybody in the European assembly. Even the current rapporteur for Romania, Pierre Moscovici, underlined that Romania's EU integration would not be endangered if the authorities decided to resume inter-country adoptions. Furthermore, the EP's report about Romania's readiness to join the EU, released in October last year, included an amendment asking that all adoption requests that were blocked when the ban came into effect be solved. According to Bertzi, foreign officials have insisted that the laws be changed so that the approximately one thousand requests can be solved. The state secretary emphasized that the new laws on adoption, which have fallen under criticism especially in countries whose citizens wanted to adopt Romanian orphans - mostly in the U.S., were developed after consultations with European partners. "I don't think it is a good thing to have this idea that Romania needs to change its laws from case to case. One cannot accept changing the laws month to month, year to year, especially with regards to such delicate problem as inter-country adoptions," Bertzi said. According to the state secretary, if Romania changed these laws, it would violate the conventions to which it is a part. "It is clear that agencies that deal with adoptions abroad do so for money and I know from families (who want to adopt) that they pay large sums of money to have a file, a social investigation. I think the costs, which are substantial, can still be found on Web sites (of the agencies)," she said. Bertzi also underlined that she hoped the pressure for solving the "pipeline" cases are motivated by the families' interest in the children's welfare and not by the financial interests of the intermediary agencies. When asked whether the introduction of the amendment on inter-country adoptions in the European Parliament's report was the result of this kind of pressure, Bertzi said "a connection, indeed" exists. She also expressed her surprise that pressure is favoring inter- country adoptions, whereas until recently, it was the other way around. "I don't understand this change of attitude," she said. http://www.daily-news.ro/article_detail.php?idarticle=24169 *** sustineti [romania_eu_list] prin 2% din impozitul pe 2005 - detalii la http://www.doilasuta.ro *** Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romania_eu_list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
