"I'm afraid that foreign adoption will become the issue of his visit."

My own foreign adoption was less expensive than most private processes.

The goal of the plan was to totally eliminate foreign adoptions by 2015.

Until now, Russia has been exporting its children through foreign adoptions.

With those adoptions couples will have to travel to do the foreign adoption in that country.

But, the agencies add, foreign adoptions cannot and should not serve as the main answer to the continued high number of institutionalized children.

"I am categorically against foreign adoption," she said in an interview.

"I am almost certain no child who was being prepared for foreign adoption has died," he said.

About 30 to 40 foreign adoptions a month are said to be processed by courts here.

"Our most important task is to exert more control over foreign adoptions."