The Pope will speak at the UN on September 25
Pope Francis will visit on September 25 official visit to the headquarters of the UN in new York and will address the delegates of the 70th session of the General Assembly, said Thursday the official Internet-portal of the Organization.
A source in the Vatican said Last news that, in all likelihood, the dominant feature of the circulation to the delegates and negotiations with the leaders of countries will pacification of conflicts in different countries, among them in Ukraine. The specialist examines recent Visit to Minsk of the Secretary of state of the Holy see, cardinal Pietro Parolin, the second person in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church - in the context of expanding the influence of the Vatican on the peace-building process in Ukraine.
Current week, according to unconfirmed reports, the Pontiff holds mainly at a Desk, working on a second Encyclical (first - Lumen fidei, was published in 2013). Francis has minimized the number of meetings and, maybe, some part of the time he will devote to thinking about the upcoming speech at the UN.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations ban Ki-moon, who in the spring of last year saw Francis in the Vatican, welcomed the Pontiff's Visit to new York in the year of the 70th anniversary of the UN and expressed the hope that the intervention of the Pope will contribute to the pursuit of social justice, tolerance and understanding. It is expected that the Pope will hold a series of bilateral meetings with leaders of the countries.
Visit Francis will be the fifth visit of the popes in recorded history of the UN. Paul VI visited the headquarters on 4 October 1965, two times from the podium of the General Assembly was made by John Paul II (2 October 1979 and October 5, 1995) and once in the UN visited Benedict XVI (18 April 2008).
The Holy see is a permanent observer status at the UN.
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