Vatican FM visits occupation line in Georgia
Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the secretary for relations with States of the Holy See (Vatican) spoke with locals of the Khurvaleti village. Photo: Foreign Ministry press office.
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Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the secretary for relations with States of the Holy See (Vatican), who came to Georgia on 21 October, visited Khurvaleti village yesterday, which is located at the occupation line between Georgia and its eastern breakaway Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.
Gallagher spoke with locals and received information about “grave humanitarian situation” in and near the occupied territories due to illegal actions of Russia.
Gallagher has already met with Georgian prime and foreign ministers and visited the historic town of Mtskheta in eastern Georgia.
He also laid a wreath at the memorial of Georgian fallen heroes in Tbilisi.
Gallagher is scheduled to meet with Georgian Patriarch Ilia II before his departure tomorrow.
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has held a meeting with Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the secretary for relations with States of the Holy See (Vatican), in Tbilisi today.
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The legacy of a prominent Georgian Catholic religious leader was celebrated this week in the Vatican in Rome.
Georgian officials on Tuesday visited locals of central Georgia's Khurvaleti village who have found their yards split by new barbed wire installations erected by Russian occupying forces near the Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.
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