HOLY SEE, ISRAEL SIGN LEGAL PERSONALITY AGREEMENT

VATICAN CITY, FEB 4, 1999 (VIS) - "Yesterday, February 3, in the office of Israel's Foreign Affairs minister, a ceremony took place for the exchange of ratification documents of the 'Legal Personality Agreement', signed in the same office between the Holy See and Israel on November 10, 1997," said Holy See Press Office Director Joaquin Navarro-Valls today.

"The new Agreement, developed from what was already envisioned by the 'Fundamental Agreement' of December 30 1993, ratifies the full recognition with full civil effects, in the milieu of Israeli legislation, of moral and legal persons where they are constituted by the authorities of the Catholic Church, according to Canon Law, and working in that milieu.

"The Holy See delegation was led by Msgr. Celestino Migliore, under-secretary of the Section for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State, and the Israeli one led by Eytan Bentsur, director general of the Foreign Affairs Ministry."

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