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Ratification of the Ukrainian Convention on the Protection of Children and Cooperation with Respect to Inter-Country Adoption (Hague Adoption Convention) will give an opportunity to gain a real control over the destiny of the children adopted by the foreigners, a government official has said. 

“I’m sure that all of the resources there were in Ukraine to monitor what happens to children adopted by foreign citizens have already been exhausted. Ukraine can’t gain anything in a unilateral way anymore,” Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Yuriy Pavlenko said during a roundtable held by the Verkhovna Rada Committee on family, youth policy, sport and tourism in Kyiv on Wednesday.

According to him, the introduction of amendments to the Family Code “will mean there’s a possibility have a proper controls over what happens to a child that is adopted after the convention is ratified and comes into force.”

Pavlenko said that the convention would allow eliminate any illegal and intermediary work in Ukraine regarding inter-state adoption.