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TELEGRAMMA DI CORDOGLIO DEL SANTO PADRE PER L’ASSASSINIO DEL PRIMO MINISTRO SERBO ZORAN DJINDJIC, 14.03.2003


TELEGRAMMA DI CORDOGLIO DEL SANTO PADRE PER L’ASSASSINIO DEL PRIMO MINISTRO SERBO ZORAN DJINDJIC

Pubblichiamo di seguito il telegramma di cordoglio per l’assassinio del Primo Ministro serbo Zoran Djindjic che il Santo Padre Giovanni Paolo II ha fatto pervenire, tramite il Cardinale Angelo Sodano, Segretario di Stato, al Nunzio Apostolico di Belgrado:

● TELEGRAMMA DEL SANTO PADRE

HIS HOLINESS POPE JOHN PAUL II HAS LEARNED WITH CONSTERNATION AND SADNESS OF THE TRAGIC ASSASSINATION OF SERBIAN PRIME MINISTER ZORAN DJINDJIC AND HE ASKS YOU KINDLY TO CONVEY HIS HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE MEMBERS OF GOVERNMENT, TOGETHER WITH HIS FORCEFUL CONDEMNATION OF THIS BARBAROUS ACT OF VIOLENCE. AT THIS TIME OF NATIONAL MOURNING HIS HOLINESS EXPRESSES HIS SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO IN THEIR RESOLUTE EFFORTS TO WORK FOR THE RENEWAL OF SOCIETY AND THE BUILDING OF A DEMOCRATIC ORDER MARKED BY JUSTICE, COOPERATION IN THE PURSUIT OF THE COMMON GOOD AND RESPECT FOR THE RIGHTS OF ALL. COMMENDING THE LATE PRIME MINISTER TO GOD’S MERCY, THE HOLY FATHER INVOKES UPON THE NATION AND ITS PEOPLE THE DIVINE GIFTS OF WISDOM, STRENGTH AND PEACE.

CARDINAL ANGELO SODANO
SECRETARY OF STATE

[00376-02.01] [Original text: English]