Pope Francis Receives President Võ Văn Thưởng and Release of an Historic Agreement between the Vatican and Viet Nam allowing a Diplomat from the Holy See to be Based Permanently in the Country
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Viet Nam and the Holy See have signed an agreement alloweing a permanent Resident Papal Representative and office in the Southeast Asian country. This is according to a joint statement released this on July 27th, by the Holy See at the end of the visit to the Vatican by Vietnamese President Võ Văn Thưởng, who met Pope Francis and Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin.
Almost 50 years after the communist regime expelled the apostolic delegate in 1975, a Holy See diplomat will be based permanently in the Southeast Asian country. He will support Vietnamese Catholics to fulfil their vocation to be “good Catholics and good citizens”.
The agreement, which allows the Holy See to have a permanent envoy in Ha Noi, the Vietnamese capital, represents an historic growth in bilateral relations, after years of negotiations.
The Holy See already had a representative for Viet Nam, Archbishop Marek Zalewski, but he is nuncio in Singapore, authorised by the Vietnamese government to make visits to the country.
The agreement officially announced today, it will soon lead to the reopening of a Vatican representation in the country almost 50 years after the expulsion of the apostolic delegate to Viet Nam decreed by the communist regime in 1975. (with Information from Asia NewsIT)
FULL TEXT Joint Communique on the conclusion of the Agreement on the Status of the Resident Papal Representative and the Office of the Resident Papal Representative of the Holy See in Viet Nam, 27.07.2023
On the occasion of the visit by the President of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, H.E. Vo Van Thuong to the Vatican on 27 July 2023, on the basis of the 10th Session of the Joint Working Group between Viet Nam and the Holy See on 31 March 2023 in the Vatican, and with the desire to continue advancing bilateral relations, the two sides officially announce that the Government of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam and the Holy See concluded the "Agreement on the Status of the Resident Papal Representative and the Office of the Resident Papal Representative in Viet Nam".
At the talks between President Vo Van Thuong and Pope Francis, and Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin respectively, the two sides expressed high appreciation for the noteworthy progress in the relations between Viet Nam and the Holy See, and the positive contributions by the Catholic community of Viet Nam thus far.
Both sides expressed their confidence that the Resident Papal Representative will fulfill the role and mandate given in the Agreement, provide support to the Vietnamese Catholic community in their undertakings in the spirit of the law and, always inspired by the Magisterium of the Church, to fulfill the vocation of "accompanying the nation" and to be " good Catholics and good citizens", and contribute to the development of the country, while the Representative will be a bridge to advance relations between Viet Nam and the Holy See.
Source: https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2023/07/27/0531/01172.html
The Holy See already had a representative for Viet Nam, Archbishop Marek Zalewski, but he is nuncio in Singapore, authorised by the Vietnamese government to make visits to the country.
The agreement officially announced today, it will soon lead to the reopening of a Vatican representation in the country almost 50 years after the expulsion of the apostolic delegate to Viet Nam decreed by the communist regime in 1975. (with Information from Asia NewsIT)
FULL TEXT Joint Communique on the conclusion of the Agreement on the Status of the Resident Papal Representative and the Office of the Resident Papal Representative of the Holy See in Viet Nam, 27.07.2023
On the occasion of the visit by the President of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, H.E. Vo Van Thuong to the Vatican on 27 July 2023, on the basis of the 10th Session of the Joint Working Group between Viet Nam and the Holy See on 31 March 2023 in the Vatican, and with the desire to continue advancing bilateral relations, the two sides officially announce that the Government of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam and the Holy See concluded the "Agreement on the Status of the Resident Papal Representative and the Office of the Resident Papal Representative in Viet Nam".
At the talks between President Vo Van Thuong and Pope Francis, and Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin respectively, the two sides expressed high appreciation for the noteworthy progress in the relations between Viet Nam and the Holy See, and the positive contributions by the Catholic community of Viet Nam thus far.
Both sides expressed their confidence that the Resident Papal Representative will fulfill the role and mandate given in the Agreement, provide support to the Vietnamese Catholic community in their undertakings in the spirit of the law and, always inspired by the Magisterium of the Church, to fulfill the vocation of "accompanying the nation" and to be " good Catholics and good citizens", and contribute to the development of the country, while the Representative will be a bridge to advance relations between Viet Nam and the Holy See.
Source: https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2023/07/27/0531/01172.html
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