CARDINAL SODANO TO ATTEND OSCE MEETING

VATICAN CITY, NOV 17, 1999 (VIS) - At midday today, Holy See Press Office Director Joaquin Navarro-Valls made the following declaration:

"On November 18 and 19 in Istanbul, Turkey, a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will be held at the level of heads of State and Government."

"Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano will attend the meeting on behalf of the Holy See. He will be accompanied by Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, secretary for Relations with States; Archbishop Luigi Conti, apostolic nuncio in Turkey and Msgr. Dominique Rezeau, permanent representative to the OSCE in Vienna.

"During his stay in Istanbul, Cardinal Sodano will meet the local Catholic community and the ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I."

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