Tuesday, June 3, 2008

HOLY SEE AND ARGENTINA: DIALOGUE AND COLLABORATION

VATICAN CITY, 3 JUN 2008 (VIS) - This morning at the Rome headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B. met with Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, president of the Republic of Argentina, during the course of the "High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bio-energy" currently being held at FAO headquarters.

  "In the course of the cordial discussions", says a communique on the meeting, "attention focused on various bilateral questions of mutual interest, expressing a reciprocal readiness to face them through frank dialogue and in an atmosphere of sincere collaboration, also in the light of the centuries-long role the Catholic Church has played in the country and the contribution she continues to make in favour of the spiritual and material wellbeing of the Argentinean people.

  "Finally, opinions were exchanged on regional and international matters of topical importance, with particular attention to the question of food, which is the subject of the meeting promoted by the FAO".
OP/MEETING BERTONE KIRCHNER/...                VIS 20080603 (190)


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