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Fri 05 May 2009Andrews defends HSE as Russia halts adoptions
DEPARTMENT OF Health officials met Russian embassy representatives yesterday in an effort to have the HSE removed from an adoption “blacklist” issued by Russia’s minister for education.
Minister of State for Children Barry Andrews said that the Russian authorities had “put their foot down” about the non-submission of “a small number” of post-placement reports on children adopted by Irish parents and the Government was responding, hoping to have Ireland removed from the blacklist “as soon as possible”.
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