Strasbourg, 26/03/2001 (Agence Europe) - By adopting, during its plenary session in Strasbourg, a resolution on children kidnapped by one of their parents, the European Parliament stated its great concern with the number of cases of parental abductions. It feels that the first provisions in terms of custody, ruled in the country where the children are born and live, must be respected in accordance with international private law. It reaffirms the right of each child to maintaining contacts with each parent after a divorce or separation. It regrets that only 47 countries have ratified the Hague Convention on child abductions. The Parliament also insists with the Kenyan authorities in order for them to find a satisfactory solution to the case of three Belgian children taken to Kenya by their mother, Marie de Brouwer, while the custody had been given to their father, Olivier Limet, by the Belgian courts. The Council and the Commission are invited to broach this dossier in their contacts with the Kenyan authorities.