51.   It came after President Boris Yeltsin in December vetoed legislation severely limiting foreign adoptions in Russia.

52.   It calls for a government agency that would license nonprofit foreign adoption agencies, but no such body has been created yet.

53.   It calls for a special government agency to issue operating licenses to nonprofit foreign adoption agencies, but no such body has been created yet.

54.   It calls for a special government agency to issue operating licenses to non-profit foreign adoption agencies, but no such body has been created yet.

55.   Legislation needed to implement an international treaty on foreign adoptions unanimously passed the Senate on Thursday.

56.   Legislation needed to implement an international treaty on foreign adoptions passed the House on Tuesday after months of gridlock over whether it would allow gay adoptions.

57.   Nanuli Shevardnadze has opposed foreign adoptions and says Georgia needs a law that would regulate the adoption process and take it out of control of shady private groups.

58.   Officials said Tuesday they have not been able to turn up a single case of infants being sold for foreign adoption.

59.   Officials in charge of adoptions also refused to release figures of foreign adoptions.

60.   President Boris Yeltsin last year signed an adoption law that contains a watered-down version of restrictions demanded by parliament, but still tightens control over foreign adoptions.