{"id":1719,"date":"2010-11-30T16:49:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T16:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2010-12-01T16:52:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T16:52:59","slug":"wikileaks-viewing-cable-06bucharest576-adoptions-romania-officially-rejects-all-pending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wikileaks-viewing-cable-06bucharest576-adoptions-romania-officially-rejects-all-pending\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikileaks: Viewing cable 06BUCHAREST576, ADOPTIONS: ROMANIA OFFICIALLY REJECTS ALL PENDING"},"content":{"rendered":"
Date: 2010-11-30<\/div>\n
Source: http:\/\/cablegate.wikileaks.org<\/a><\/div>\n
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Embassy Bucharest<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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VZCZCXRO3212<\/span><\/pre>\n
PP RUEHFL RUEHKW RUEHLA RUEHROV RUEHSR<\/span><\/pre>\n
DE RUEHBM #0576 0951604<\/span><\/pre>\n
ZNY CCCCC ZZH<\/span><\/pre>\n
P 051604Z APR 06<\/span><\/pre>\n
FM AMEMBASSY BUCHAREST<\/span><\/pre>\n
TO RUEHC\/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 4119<\/span><\/pre>\n
INFO RUEHZL\/EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE<\/span><\/pre>\n
RUEHTV\/AMEMBASSY TEL AVIV 2190<\/span><\/pre>\n
C O N F I D E N T I A L BUCHAREST 000576 <\/span><\/pre>\n
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SIPDIS <\/span><\/pre>\n
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SIPDIS <\/span><\/pre>\n
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DEPARTMENT FOR EUR\/NCE BILL SILKWORTH; <\/span><\/pre>\n
AND CA\/OCS\/CI CHRIS LAMORA AND SCOTT BOSWELL <\/span><\/pre>\n
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E.O. 12958: DECL: 04\/05\/2026 <\/span><\/pre>\n
TAGS: CASC<\/a> PREL<\/a> PGOV<\/a> PHUM<\/a> RO<\/a><\/span><\/pre>\n
SUBJECT: ADOPTIONS: ROMANIA OFFICIALLY REJECTS ALL PENDING <\/span><\/pre>\n
INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION CASES <\/span><\/pre>\n
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REF: A) BUCHAREST 0536 B) 2005 BUCHAREST 2550 <\/span><\/pre>\n
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Classified By: DCM Mark Taplin, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) <\/span><\/pre>\n
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\u00b6<\/a>1. (U) On April 5, Embassy received by mail a letter from <\/span><\/pre>\n
Theodora Bertzi, Secretary of State for the Government of <\/span><\/pre>\n
Romania<\/span>,s (GOR) Romanian Office for Adoptions (ROA), dated <\/span><\/pre>\n
March 29 and including the final report of the GOR Working <\/span><\/pre>\n
Group established in June 2005 to audit pending petitions by <\/span><\/pre>\n
foreign families to adopt Romanian orphans and abandoned <\/span><\/pre>\n
children. Post has faxed the letter to EUR\/NCE and CA\/OCS\/CI. <\/span><\/pre>\n
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\u00b6<\/a>2. (U) The report shows that none of the 1,092 children <\/span><\/pre>\n
identified in the pending petitions will be available for <\/span><\/pre>\n
inter-country adoption, ostensibly for the following reasons: <\/span><\/pre>\n
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-- 41 reintegrated into biological family <\/span><\/pre>\n
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-- 12 integrated within extended family <\/span><\/pre>\n
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-- 227 adopted by Romanian families <\/span><\/pre>\n
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-- 17 adopted by other foreign families by the rules of the <\/span><\/pre>\n
adoption moratorium (2001-04) <\/span><\/pre>\n
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-- 8 under legal guardianship in Romania <\/span><\/pre>\n
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-- 12 reached or will soon reach age 18 <\/span><\/pre>\n
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-- 47 petitioned after a February 6, 2004 emergency ordinance <\/span><\/pre>\n
suspended even exceptional approval of intercountry adoptions <\/span><\/pre>\n
during the moratorium <\/span><\/pre>\n
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-- 2 died <\/span><\/pre>\n
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-- 6 not found in GOR,s database of orphans or abandoned <\/span><\/pre>\n
children <\/span><\/pre>\n
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-- 90 had petitions withdrawn by the foreign families (1 from <\/span><\/pre>\n
the U.S.) <\/span><\/pre>\n
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-- 132 in process of final domestic adoption <\/span><\/pre>\n
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-- 415 not adoptable, protected within substitutive (sic) <\/span><\/pre>\n
families <\/span><\/pre>\n
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-- 83 not adoptable, placed in the protection system (their <\/span><\/pre>\n
biological family did not consent to adoption before Court or <\/span><\/pre>\n
the Court did not approve the opening of the domestic <\/span><\/pre>\n
adoption procedure). <\/span><\/pre>\n
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\u00b6<\/a>3. (C) Comment: The Working Group had been expected to issue <\/span><\/pre>\n
its report by the end of March, and Bertzi had announced <\/span><\/pre>\n
publicly in December 2005 that none of the cases would be <\/span><\/pre>\n
approved for inter-country adoption. However, the utterly <\/span><\/pre>\n
non-transparent process of the Working Group and the opaque <\/span><\/pre>\n
quality of the report suggest some of the children may in <\/span><\/pre>\n
fact remain in non-permanent situations in which their <\/span><\/pre>\n
welfare is not being adequately protected. Post believes we <\/span><\/pre>\n
should continue to press the GOR to open up the Working <\/span><\/pre>\n
Group,s \"conclusions\" for a transparent, objective <\/span><\/pre>\n
international review and to establish a legal framework that <\/span><\/pre>\n
would allow inter-country adoption for appropriate pending <\/span><\/pre>\n
cases. We will provide Department with our updated <\/span><\/pre>\n
recommendations soon. End comment. <\/span><\/pre>\n
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TAUBMAN<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Date: 2010-11-30 Source: http:\/\/cablegate.wikileaks.org Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin 06BUCHAREST576 2006-04-05 16:04 2010-11-30 16:04 CONFIDENTIAL Embassy Bucharest VZCZCXRO3212 PP RUEHFL RUEHKW RUEHLA RUEHROV RUEHSR DE RUEHBM #0576 0951604 ZNY CCCCC ZZH P 051604Z APR 06 FM AMEMBASSY BUCHAREST TO RUEHC\/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 4119 INFO RUEHZL\/EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE RUEHTV\/AMEMBASSY TEL AVIV 2190 C O N…  Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}