Xinhua | 29 October, 2012
By Agencies
Cambodia and the United
States agreed to resume adoptions from January 1 next year, Long Visalo,
secretary of state at Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said
Monday.
Speaking to reporters after a meeting with visiting
Ambassador Susan Jacobs, special advisor for children's issues of the
United States, Long Visalo said that US citizens can request to adopt
Cambodian children from January 1, 2013.
"We set a quota of
between 100 and 200 children to the United States a year and a child
must be aged below 8 years old," he said. "We do not sell our children,
but find better future for them."
He said that Cambodia ratified the Hague Convention on Inter- Country Adoption in 2007.
The
country banned foreign adoptions in 2009 in order to taking time to
better regulate the adoption process. On December 3, 2009, it passed the
law on Inter-Country Adoption.
The law makes clear that the
government is cracking down on child trafficking, and it bans profit
making in adoption, provides harsher penalties for lawbreakers, and also
requires adoptions to only be handled by authorized and trained
officials.
Briefly speaking to reporters after the meeting, Susan
said, " It was a successful meeting, and it will be good cooperation
between Cambodia and the United States."
About 4,000 to 5,000
Cambodian children have been adopted by the United States, Italy,
France, Australia, Germany, and the United Kingdom, Long Visalo said.
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