Roma, Aug. 25 (LaPresse) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will meet today with Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations of the Holy See, who arrived in Moscow for a series of meetings with the authorities of the Russian Federation, representatives of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Catholic community. Lavrov said that international issues and prospects for bilateral cooperation will be discussed, with particular attention to the situation in Ukraine, the Russian news agency Tass reports. Afterwards, according to the schedule of the visit released by the Secretariat of State of the Holy See, Archbishop Gallagher will meet Metropolitan Antonij of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate. Tomorrow, he is scheduled to meet Yuri Ushakov, adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on foreign policy, while on Thursday Gallagher will meet the clergy and bishops at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Moscow.
Ukraine, Archbishop Gallagher in Moscow: meeting with Lavrov today
Roma, Aug. 25 (LaPresse) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will meet today with Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations of the Holy See, who arrived in Moscow for a series of meetings with the authorities of the Russian Federation, representatives of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Catholic community. Lavrov said that international issues and prospects for bilateral cooperation will be discussed, with particular attention to the situation in Ukraine, the Russian news agency Tass reports. Afterwards, according to the schedule of the visit released by the Secretariat of State of the Holy See, Archbishop Gallagher will meet Metropolitan Antonij of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate. Tomorrow, he is scheduled to meet Yuri Ushakov, adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on foreign policy, while on Thursday Gallagher will meet the clergy and bishops at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Moscow.