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Vatican foreign minister calls for peaceful solution to Ukraine war

09.12.2014, 13:48
Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, the Vatican’s outgoing secretary for relations with stateshas called for a peaceful solution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine as an urgent priority for Europe speaking at the 21st ministerial council of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) held in Basel.

Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, the Vatican’s outgoing secretary for relations with stateshas called for a peaceful solution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine as an urgent priority for Europe speaking at the 21st ministerial council of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) held in Basel, Catholic Herald informs.

On the enduring conflict in eastern Ukraine, the archbishop said it is the Vatican’s “strong conviction that the best way of resolving the current situation is through dialogue and negotiation.”

He said the Vatican has been “following very closely and with deep concern the worrying developments” in the country and expressed the Pope’s closeness to the people who suffer in the region.

He lamented the use of arms in attempting to resolve disputes as “a sad development” and expressed regret at the loss of life, suffering, and grave violations of people’s basic rights in the conflict.

He applauded the deployment of the OSCE’s special monitoring mission to Ukraine but said the non-implementation of the OSCE’s Vienna Document or its Code of Conduct to bring about conditions to resolve the crisis was regrettable.