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ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, AT THE APOSTOLIC NUNCIATURE IN BERLIN, Archbishop Erwin Josef Ender, apostolic nuncio to Germany, and Ole von Beust, mayor and president of the senate of Hamburg, Germany, exchanged the instruments of ratification of an agreement between the Holy See and the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg signed on November 29, 2005. The agreement regulates relations between the Catholic Church and this city "lande" and came into effect on the day following the exchange of the instruments of ratification.

ARCHBISHOP CELESTINO MIGLIORE, PERMANENT OBSERVER of the Holy See to the United Nations in New York, spoke yesterday before the plenary of the UN General Assembly, on the theme: "New Partnership for Africa's Development." In his English-language talk, Archbishop Migliore affirmed the need "to create new forms of solidarity at bilateral and multilateral levels through a more decisive commitment on the part of all, with the complete conviction that the well-being of the peoples of Africa is an indispensable condition for the attainment of the universal common good."
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