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The congratulations read in particular:

“Your high mission starts in an important period of global development. The third millennium is opening up new opportunities for economic and societal progress of the humankind. At the same time, the need to preserve the moral, ethical and spiritual foundations of life, maintain social harmony, and counteract extremism and intolerance together is becoming more urgent. Christianity and other global religions play a particularly important and considerable role here.

Russia intends to continue constructive political dialogue and interaction with the Holy See in the interests of solving global problems, and bolstering values of goodness, justice and humanism.”