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Pope received Croatian PM Plenkovic, EU Council President
PM to the Pope,'human brotherhood? Let's try to implement it'
06 February, 16:16
(ANSA) - VATICAN CITY, FEBRUARY 6 - Pope Francis received
Croatia's Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, current president of
the European Council, in an audience at the Vatican Apostolic
Palace this morning.
The reason for the meeting was, above all, the multilateral and European issue, not the bilateral one, since Plenkovic had already been received as prime minister by the Pope at the Vatican two and a half years ago, on October 7, 2017. On that occasion, he had invited Bergoglio to Croatia.
The private talks, which took place in the Library Hall with no interpreter since Plenkovic speaks Italian very well, lasted 22 minutes.
In the end, the Pope gave the Croatian Premier the Medallion of Peace, his five encyclicals and apostolic exhortations, in addition to the Abu Dhabi Document on Human Brotherhood, on which Plenkovic commented: "let's try to implement it." In Croatia, the relations between the Muslim community, made up of Bosnians and Albanians who have lived in the country for four generations and integrated themselves mainly in the urban area, are at least friendly and there are no tensions. (ANSA).
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The reason for the meeting was, above all, the multilateral and European issue, not the bilateral one, since Plenkovic had already been received as prime minister by the Pope at the Vatican two and a half years ago, on October 7, 2017. On that occasion, he had invited Bergoglio to Croatia.
The private talks, which took place in the Library Hall with no interpreter since Plenkovic speaks Italian very well, lasted 22 minutes.
In the end, the Pope gave the Croatian Premier the Medallion of Peace, his five encyclicals and apostolic exhortations, in addition to the Abu Dhabi Document on Human Brotherhood, on which Plenkovic commented: "let's try to implement it." In Croatia, the relations between the Muslim community, made up of Bosnians and Albanians who have lived in the country for four generations and integrated themselves mainly in the urban area, are at least friendly and there are no tensions. (ANSA).
