Deputy Director-General of CCAA, Gan Weiwei, Met with Visitors from Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands

On 3rd June, 2010, Deputy Director-General of the CCAA, Ms. Gan Weiwei, met at the CCAA with guests from the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands, Director of Judicial Youth Policy, Mr. Reinier ter Kuile, and his colleagues, Mr. Jo?l van Andel and Mr. Jan Vroomans, as well as an official from the Dutch Embassy in Beijing, Mr. Remy. Director of the Archives Management Dept. at the CCAA, Mr. Liu Kangsheng, deputy director of the Eligibility Review Dept. for Foreign Adopters at the CCAA, Ms. Wang Xiaofeng, and deputy director of the Child Inter-Country Placement Dept. at the CCAA, Mr. Xu Zesheng, were present in the meeting.

The meeting parties made profound communications and discussions over the issues of influence of Dutch parliament change over revision of relevant adoption law, comments of Dutch organizations on the prolonged working time for on-line placement of children with special needs, physical status and age of children with special needs, identification of Chinese children available for inter-country adoption, root-search travel of Chinese children adopted by foreigners, key issues of Europe Adopt Conference of April, preparation for the Special Commission of the Hague Conference in June, classification of adoption cases made by Dutch citizens residing in China, and so forth. The two sides got to a common view over many issues and would love to give great mutual support.

The people present in the meeting have actually met during the visit of a CCAA delegation to the Netherlands in October 2009 and made discussions over certain issues already, which built up a very good foundation for this meeting. The two sides finally agreed that emails, telephones and letter should be used for timely communication of operational issues and, meanwhile, the mechanism of face-to-face meeting once every year should be carried on for a strengthened friendship and enhanced cooperation for inter-country adoption between China and the Netherlands.