Lahbib contacted ministers from India and Chile, among others, about illegal adoptions

Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib has been in contact with her fellow ministers in Ethiopia, India, Chile, Guatemala, Colombia, Congo and South Korea in connection with possible illegal adoptions. 

She stated this on Monday at a meeting with organizations representing adopted people.The minister gave the organizations an update on the investigation into the adoptions. This was requested in a resolution adopted in Parliament last year. For example, the archives of the Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs are being searched for traces of illegal adoptions. 

The Belgian consular posts in various countries are also involved in the investigation. They send their archives to Brussels, where they are analyzed.“We must do everything we can to tell the people involved the truth about their origins,” the minister said on Monday. Adoptions have allegedly been carried out over the past seventy years after kidnappings or with smuggled children, the resolution of June last year stated. If this is confirmed in the investigation, the Chamber will ask that Belgium officially recognize that such adoptions have taken place.Knack - Time To Read

The victims must receive help in their search for their biological relatives. Depending on the outcome of the investigation, the House may later decide to set up an investigation committee.