Senator Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn, recently visited Vietnam with Senators John McCain, R-Arizona, and Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina. During the visit, Senator Klobuchar addressed the issue of a new adoption agreement between the United States and Vietnam with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
An article in Minnesota’s Star Tribune says that Klobuchar called the meeting “a good first step toward addressing the situation” and said that the Prime Minister expressed his country’s desire to join the Hague Convention.
The entire article can be accessed here.
The Minnesota Post further reported:
Klobuchar said that Vietnam has decided to join the Hague Convention, and will presumably follow the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption that established safeguards and a standard system for international adoptions.
“They want to normalize the adoption process between our two countries, said Klobuchar, who cautioned that “they won’t be able to do it overnight.
The entire article can be accessed here.
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