Press statements by Prime Minister Calin Popescu– Tariceanu on the adoptions issue
I feel that Santa Clause has come first to Parliament this year, before coming anywhere else. Returning to serious matters, I am aware with what the Parliament decided on the MPs status and on the other hand, I will request President Traian Basescu to resend the law to be debated in the Parliament. Secondly, I will discuss with MPs, members of the majority coalition to reconsider the provisions they have, so as to use a polite formula and not call them privileges, and which take into account the level of social advantages that are granted to other categories of employees. Consequently, I believe that these should be lowered to a reasonable level.
Today, I have requested the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Mihai Razvan Ungureanu to express an official point of view of the Government. Due to the position expressed by the Deputy Secretary of State Maura Harty , I feel compelled to repeat: the Romanian legislation effective as of the 1st of January 2005 will not be amended, it complies with the international and European standards. It places first the superior interest of the child. At the same time, from the institutional point of view, Romania is currently able to take over all abandoned children. Unfortunately, we have to underline that the adoption applications that were submitted further to the moratorium introduction in 2001, do not comply with the adoptions conditions. Those who submitted these applications despite the moratorium, knew from the very beginning that they were running a risk, and the analyses made by the Romanian Adoptions Office on each file prove that in none of these cases, the international adoptions conditions cannot be fulfilled on the basis of the 2001 moratorium and the current legislation. Consequently, the effective Romanian legislation does not favor, support and stimulate the international adoptions, on the contrary, it discourages and this will be the Romanian Government's policy on adoptions.
For each Romanian child that is not adopted today, and there are 450 cases of this kind, there are over 1355 Romanian families who submitted adoption applications, and they will have priority according to the Romanian legislation, the way it is normal and natural. Better than alienating these children, I believe that they would rather remain in Romania , in families with whom they share the same language, habits and culture.
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