HOLY SEE ON EVENTS IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

VATICAN CITY, OCT 30, 2002 (VIS) - Joaquin Navarro-Valls, director of the Holy See Press Office, stated today that "the Secretariat of State, having been informed of the grave events that the populations of the Central Africa Republic are experiencing, hopes that they will know how to renounce the use of force, which leads only to ruin, and to respect the constitutional order.

"At the same time the secretariat encourages the international community to continue its work in favor of peaceful means and (encourages) the local Church to persevere in her exemplary action for fraternal and peaceful coexistence."

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