Parliament’s committee chairman: “Adoption by foreigners sharply reduced in Azerbaijan”

Parliament’s committee chairman: “Adoption by foreigners sharply reduced in Azerbaijan”

[ 15 Dec 2009 12:25 ]

Baku. Kamala Guliyeva – APA. Azerbaijan’s Family Code is expected to be amended for prevention of adoption problems, said the Chairman of the Parliament’s Social Policy Committee Hadi Rajabli, APA reports.

According to the amendments, persons above 60 and not having normal living conditions can not adopt the children.

One of the amendments is about the protection of the adoptee property right until 18. Rajabli said so far the property of such children was protected by the officials or their relatives. “The problems will be solved after this issue is described in the Family Code”.

He said the draft amendments and annexes expected to be adopted until the spring session of the parliament.

The committee chairman also noted that adoption by the foreigners was reduced sharply in the past five years. “Azerbaijani parliament joined the special convention, which considers controlling every step toward the adoption by foreigners. This issue has strong legislative basis, which creates opportunity for protection of children rights”.

Rajabli said there were two approaches toward the child adoption in Azerbaijan. “Somebody adopts the child because of mercy. But most people prefer to use barter for adoption. They want to adopt healthy child. Today four thousand families desire to adopt such children. But there are only such 20 children in the orphanages”.

The committee chairman said there was no problem in the Azerbaijani legislation with adoption because of merciful motives.