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IN DIFFERENCE TO FOREIGNERS, RA CITIZENS ADOPT ONLY HEALTHY CHILDREN
Noyan Tapan
April 30, 2008
YEREVAN, APRIL 30, NOYAN TAPAN. 225 children being RA citizens were
adopted by foreign citizens in the last three years. Gevorg Danielian,
the RA Minister of Justice, said in his interview to journalists
on April 29 that foreign citizens prefer adopting ill or gravely
ill children, in difference to Armenians, who adopt only healthy
children. G. Danielian said that most of ill children are cured and
recover abroad, thanks to their new parents.
Nearly 50% foreign couples adopting children are Armenians by
nationality, in case of nearly 20% either the wife or the husband is
Armenian, and 30% are people of other nationalities.
G. Danielian also said that the most important problem related to
child adoption by foreigners is clarification of conditions and
order regulating the process. According to the Minister, in 2000,
when a republican commission on issues of adoption was created, the
government decided that if necessary, the commission was empowered
to demand guarantees from foreign citizens adopting children, which
can be provided by the Armenian Apostolic Church or people Armenian
by nationality, who know the people adopting the child. And today
introducing a guarantee is a compulsory condition.
The second important problem, according to G. Danielian, is control
over the condition of children already adopted. "On April 21,
2005 the government adopted decision N 623, which instructed
all consular institutions and diplomatic representations once
a year to receive information from foreign citizens, who have
adopted a child," the Minister said. However, according to him,
that decision could not completely serve its purpose, as the issue
regarded international relations, and no country has a right with its
intra-state sublegislative act to oblige a citizen of another country,
especially its authorized bodies, to provide information about the
condition of adopted children. That issue, as G. Danielian mentioned,
still needs regulation.
Noyan Tapan
April 30, 2008
YEREVAN, APRIL 30, NOYAN TAPAN. 225 children being RA citizens were
adopted by foreign citizens in the last three years. Gevorg Danielian,
the RA Minister of Justice, said in his interview to journalists
on April 29 that foreign citizens prefer adopting ill or gravely
ill children, in difference to Armenians, who adopt only healthy
children. G. Danielian said that most of ill children are cured and
recover abroad, thanks to their new parents.
Nearly 50% foreign couples adopting children are Armenians by
nationality, in case of nearly 20% either the wife or the husband is
Armenian, and 30% are people of other nationalities.
G. Danielian also said that the most important problem related to
child adoption by foreigners is clarification of conditions and
order regulating the process. According to the Minister, in 2000,
when a republican commission on issues of adoption was created, the
government decided that if necessary, the commission was empowered
to demand guarantees from foreign citizens adopting children, which
can be provided by the Armenian Apostolic Church or people Armenian
by nationality, who know the people adopting the child. And today
introducing a guarantee is a compulsory condition.
The second important problem, according to G. Danielian, is control
over the condition of children already adopted. "On April 21,
2005 the government adopted decision N 623, which instructed
all consular institutions and diplomatic representations once
a year to receive information from foreign citizens, who have
adopted a child," the Minister said. However, according to him,
that decision could not completely serve its purpose, as the issue
regarded international relations, and no country has a right with its
intra-state sublegislative act to oblige a citizen of another country,
especially its authorized bodies, to provide information about the
condition of adopted children. That issue, as G. Danielian mentioned,
still needs regulation.