DECLARATION ON VERDICT IN ANDREOTTI TRIAL

VATICAN CITY, OCT 23, 1999 (VIS) - Responding to journalists who asked about the acquittal this morning, in Palermo, Italy, of seven-time Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti, who had been on trial accused of consorting with the mafia, Holy See Press Office Director Joaquin Navarro-Valls said he "repeats the Holy See's satisfaction, expressed one month ago in Perugia, when Senator Andreotti was acquitted at another trial."

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