The international adoption of a Moldovan child will be allowed only if this suffers from a chronic disease, under a bill on the juridical status of adoption proposed by the Government on Wednesday.

The bill stipulates that the person or family that wants to adopt a Moldovan child must possess guarantees regarding the material condition and meet the moral standards necessary to insure the normal development of the child after adoption. The state of the adopted child will be supervised during at least three years after adoption.

The bill was formulated in a move to carry out the decision of the Supreme Security Council of June 2005, which discovered irregularities in the adoption of Moldovan children by foreign families.

Statistical data show that during 2002-2004, the courts of law allowed 758 national adoptions and 149 international adoptions. Last year the foreign citizens adopted 83 Moldovan children or by 30 more than a year before. Most of the children went to live in US, Italian, Canadian and Israeli families.