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A spokesman for Russia"s foreign ministry, Andrei Nesterenko, said on Thursday child adoptions by U.S. families had been suspended until the two states sign a bilateral agreement on adoption rules.

"We saw reports on the suspension of the child adoption procedures, but we have no information confirming this," a source in the embassy"s press service told RIA Novosti.

The source said the embassy "continues to work with Russian officials, and a [U.S.] delegation will pay a visit to Russia next week to discuss adoption issues and conduct talks on the bilateral arrangement of the problem."

Russia suspended from April 9 the activities on its territory of the U.S. child adoption agency World Association for Children and Parents after a U.S. adoptive mother put her 7-year-old son on a plane and sent him back to Moscow alone. He brought a note in which the adoptive mother, Torry Hansen from Tennessee, said she would not take care of him any longer because he is "mentally

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