The Italian adoption agency Amici dei Bambini reported recently on yet another attempt to re-open Romanian adoptions.
Work to unblock intercountry adoptions (in Italian).
Apparently the US State Department has invited the Romanian Office for Adoptions in recent days to attend a series of meetings during which were examined in detail the procedures of the American adoption system.
The meetings that were held in Washington, Pittsburgh and Boston have seen the presence of three representatives of the Romanian Office for Adoptions: Bogdan Adrian Panait, chairman of the department for adoptions Romania , Ciprian Florinel Buhusi Ramona Popa and both the president’s advisers.
These meetings, called “Children’s Rights, Advocacy and Policy Development / Implementation / Review – A Project for Romania” were part of a program of cooperation and development organized by the EDA (Academy for Educational Development) commissioned by the U.S. State Department.
I have not been able to find any references to these meetings on EDA’s website, nor on the one of the US State Department.
These bilateral meetings were, as reported by Amici dei Bambini, also the result of an important work of many American associations who are for some years waging a battle for the rights of abandoned children in Romania , providing support for international adoptions.