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No. 3241. PERTH, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1966.
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Pope Talks To Soviet Minister
FOR the first time in history a Pope has received a Foreign Minister of a Communist nation at the V atican. The two discussed world peace. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Pope Paul V I met for 45 minutes on April 27 in the Pontiff's private library, as Gromyko was winding up a partly official and partly private visit to Italy.
Specific points of the conversation were not made public at the V atican, but Gromyko told a press conference later that he and the Pope "agreed on the need to work together for peace independently of ideologies. He refused to discuss the talks further. Asked if the Soviet Union intends to enter into diplomatic relations with the Holy See, and if Pope Paul might be asked to visit the U.S.S.R„ he stated: "IN relation to my talk with the Pope, I should like to limit myself to what I have said." At the press conference Gromyko also called for a European summit meeting to discuss peace and ease world tensions, a meeting apparently without the participation of the United States.
CONTINUATION Both the Vatican press office and the official Soviet news agency, Tass, made a point of the fact that the meeting was regarded as a continuation of the talk between the two during the Pontiff's trip last year to United Nations headquarters in New York. At that time the two had exchanged remarks in a receiving line. The Vatican press office communique stated: 'The Holy Father, in a continuation of the talk which he had in New York last October on the occasion of his visit to the United Nations, this morning received in the presence of the Cardinal Secretary of State Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, His Excellency Andrei Gromyko. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the U.S.S.R., accompanied by the Soviet Ambassador in Italy, Semen K ozyrev." The Tass story on the meeting said: "In a continuation of the talk which took place in October last year during the 20th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko has today met with Pope Paul VI. "Taking part in the conversations w ere the Ambassador of the U.S.S.R. in Italy. Kozyrev, and the Vatican Secretary of State, Cicognani. "As reported ,the question of the common efforts of nations for eliminating war and protecting peace Without regard to ideology or denomination were discussed in the talks."
In the courtyard of St. Damasus Gromyko — who was not accom panied by his wife — was met by Cardinal Cicognani and Marchese Giulio Sachetti, one of the highest ranking laymen attached to the Pope's household. These dignitaries accompanied the Soviet diplomats t the Papal State apartments and t the library, where the Pope wa -z w aiting.
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No photographs of the meeting were taken, it was reported by the Felici Studios, which have the exclusive right to take pictures within the Papal apartments. Photographers were also barred from the St. Damasus courtyard. Before Gromyko left, the Pope gave him two copies in Russian of the Ecumenical Council's Constitu tion on the Church and a series of Vatican publications of maps of the 14th to 17th centuries. No gifts were reported presented to the Pope by Gromyko.
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