TELEGRAMMI DI CORDOGLIO DEL SANTO PADRE PER LE VITTIME DELL’ATTENTATO ALLA SEDE DELLE NAZIONI UNITE DI ABUJA (NIGERIA) ● TELEGRAMMA AL SEGRETARIO GENERALE DELLE NAZIONI UNITE
● TELEGRAMMA AL PRESIDENTE DELLA REPUBBLICA FEDERALE DELLA NIGERIA
In seguito all’attentato dinamitardo che ha colpito ieri la sede delle Nazioni Unite di Abuja, capitale della Nigeria, e che ha causato decine di morti, il Santo Padre Benedetto XVI ha espresso la sua costernazione per l’attacco terroristico e il suo cordoglio per le vittime con due messaggi telegrafici fatti pervenire rispettivamente al Segretario Generale delle Nazioni Unite, S. E. Ban Ki-Moon e al Presidente della Nigeria, S.E. Goodluck Jonathan.
Questi i testi telegrammi, a firma del Segretario di Stato, Cardinale Tarcisio Bertone:
● TELEGRAMMA AL SEGRETARIO GENERALE DELLE NAZIONI UNITE
HIS EXCELLENCY BAN KI-MOON
SECRETARY-GENERAL
UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION
NEW YORK
HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XVI WAS DISTRESSED TO LEARN OF THE TERRORIST ATTACK UPON THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICES IN ABUJA, AND OF THE TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE AMONG BOTH LOCAL CITIZENS AND UNITED NATIONS PERSONNEL. HE SENDS YOUR EXCELLENCY AND THOSE YOU REPRESENT HIS SINCERE SYMPATHY AND APPEALS AGAIN TO THOSE WHO CHOOSE DEATH AND VIOLENCE TO EMBRACE INSTEAD LIFE AND RESPECTFUL DIALOGUE. THE HOLY FATHER EARNESTLY PRAYS FOR THE REPOSE OF THOSE WHOSE LIVES HAVE BEEN CUT SHORT SO DRAMATICALLY, AND HE CORDIALLY INVOKES GOD'S BLESSINGS OF COURAGE AND STRENGTH UPON THE INJURED AND THOSE WHO MOURN.
CARDINAL TARCISIO BERTONE
SECRETARY OF STATE
[01205-02.01] [Original text: English]
● TELEGRAMMA AL PRESIDENTE DELLA REPUBBLICA FEDERALE DELLA NIGERIA
EXCELLENCY GOODLUCK JONATHAN
PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
ABUJA
HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XVI WAS DISTRESSED TO LEARN OF THE TERRORIST ATTACK UPON THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICES IN ABUJA, AND OF THE TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE AMONG BOTH LOCAL CITIZENS AND UNITED NATIONS PERSONNEL. HE SENDS YOUR EXCELLENCY AND THOSE YOU REPRESENT HIS SINCERE SYMPATHY AND APPEALS AGAIN TO THOSE WHO CHOOSE DEATH AND VIOLENCE TO EMBRACE INSTEAD LIFE AND RESPECTFUL DIALOGUE. THE HOLY FATHER EARNESTLY PRAYS FOR THE REPOSE OF THOSE WHOSE LIVES HAVE BEEN CUT SHORT SO DRAMATICALLY, AND HE CORDIALLY INVOKES GOD'S BLESSINGS OF COURAGE AND STRENGTH UPON THE INJURED AND THOSE WHO MOURN.
CARDINAL TARCISIO BERTONE
SECRETARY OF STATE
[01206-02.01] [Original text: English]
[B0498-XX.01]
