Moscow, July 6, (Interfax) - Full-scale diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Russia are a question of the near future, Holy See Representative to Russia Archbishop Antonio Mennini told the Interfax-Religion on Monday.
"The Holy See and the Russian Federation are working on the achievement of this goal. We hope that [the upgrading of Russia-Vatican relations to the ambassadorial level] will happen soon," he said.
Negotiators "have covered a lot of ground, and the negotiations will end quickly," he noted.
“We have relations at the level of representation offices with Vatican, we discuss the question of increasing this level of relations to full format, to make these relations ambassadorial, diplomatic,” Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in his interview to Italian media.
According to him, “relations between the Russian Federation and Vatican exist and their level is likely to develop.”
Archbishop Mennini said that the Vatican supported the position of Medvedev and wished to develop relations with Russia.
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Moscow, July 6, (Interfax) – Russia discusses with Vatican a question of increasing status of bilateral relations.
“We have relations at the level of representation offices with Vatican, we discuss the question of increasing this level of relations to full format, to make these relations ambassadorial, diplomatic,” Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in his interview to Italian media.
According to him, “relations between the Russian Federation and Vatican exist and their level is likely to develop.”
Medvedev did not consider it possible to answer the journalist, who asked how soon the Pope of Rome could visit Russia.
“As to relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Holy See, it’s an individual topic that perhaps doesn’t belong to the ones I should comment on. Our holy fathers can lead this dialogue, and it goes. It is an individual question,” the head of the state said.
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