AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, APR 2, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father received today in separate audiences:

- Jozef Migas, president of the parliament of the Slovak Republic, accompanied by an entourage.
- Five prelates of the Episcopal Conference of Paraguay, on the occasion of their "ad limina" visit.
- Auxiliary Bishop Ricardo Valenzuela Rios of Asuncion.
- Archbishop Jorge Adolfo Carlos Livieres Banks of Encarnacion.
- Bishop Mario Melanio Medina Salinas of San Juan Bautista de las Misiones.
- Bishop Eustaquio Pastor Cuquejo Verga, military ordinary.
- Cardinal James Francis Stafford, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, with Bishop Stanislaw Rylko, secretary; Prof. Guzman Carriquiry, under-secretary; and Fr. Francis Kohn, director of the Youth Section of the same Pontifical Council.

On Saturday, March 31, he received in separate audiences:

- Vitaly Litvin, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, representative of the Russian Federation to the Holy See, accompanied by his wife and an entourage.
- Archbishop Faustino Sainz Munoz, apostolic nuncio to the European Community.
- Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.
- Cardinal Edmund Casimir Szoka, president of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State.

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