ITALY'S PRESIDENT CIAMPI ATTENDS MASS WITH THE POPE

VATICAN CITY, JUN 28, 1999 (VIS) - At midday today, Holy See Press Office Director Joaquin Navarro-Valls made the following declaration: "Yesterday morning the president of Italy, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, accompanied by his wife, attended the Mass celebrated by John Paul II. Following Mass, President Ciampi held a brief conversation with the Pope."

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