France proposes to the Haitian authorities to create a bilateral commission to review cases of adoption of children for whom no decision had been made before the earthquake of January 12, or has been produced following the disaster, said Friday the Quai d’Orsay.
Ambassador in charge of international adoption Jean-Paul Monchau is “currently in Port-au-Prince for the Haitian authorities to propose a joint mechanism, a bilateral commission, which we can address all out there, records of adoption, “said spokesman Bernard Valero at a news briefing.
This committee is a part designed to “facilitate the processing procedures for which evidence can establish the existence of a court but which can be produced following the earthquake of 12 January, according to a press Valero . And secondly, to “make recommendations for procedures in which no decision had been made Haiti before the earthquake.
The French authorities are in contact with “a little over 900 families,” French and about 950 Haitian children are “involved in adoption procedures,” said the spokesman.
The first priority is to “hasten the arrival in France of Haitian children for whom an adoption order was made by the Haitian justice before the earthquake” or “nearly 400 children,” said Valero. To date, 277 have already joined their French family for adoption and “Other arrivals are planned in the coming days,” he said, adding that each of these departures had been “approved” by the Haitian authorities.
