HOLY SEE AND LITHUANIA SIGN ACCORDS

VATICAN CITY, SEP 16, 2000 (VIS) - Today in the Vatican, there was an exchange of instruments of ratification on three Accords between the Holy See and Lithuania which were signed on May 5, 2000 in Vilnius, and which regard juridical questions, collaboration in educational and cultural matters and religious assistance to Catholics in the army.

Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano signed for the Holy See, and Algirdas Saudargas, Lithuanian foreign affairs minister, signed for his country. Present at the ceremony were representatives of the Holy See, the government of Lithuania and the Episcopal Conference of Lithuania.

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