Peace in Ukraine, new Vatican mission. Parolin: “Small spaces but there are”

The Holy See is about to start a new mission in Ukraine with the ‘foreign minister’ Msgr. Paul Richard Gallagher who will leave for Kiev. What objectives? “The objectives – says the Vatican secretary of state, Pietro Parolin, on the sidelines of a Gregorian conference on Pope Luciani – always remain the same: we have worked and are working to the extent possible, the spaces are very limited but there are, for the ceasefire first of all: this seems to us the fundamental starting point “. Parolin hopes that “the war operations will be concluded and then a serious dialogue will begin, without preconditions in which we try to find a way to solve this problem. I heard yesterday a comment that I share, but in the end they will have to find a solution because geography it forces them to live not together but close together, they share as many thousands of kilometers as the border. It is a pity that we have not yet understood the lesson that instead of doing all these slaughterhouses and producing all this rubble, solutions could be found sooner. What the Holy See has always wished “.” But – adds the cardinal – it was also not predictable but in recent decades the issue of multilateralism has been eroding, so it is logical that when everyone focuses on their interests, on their point of view and does not know how to share and find common answers, in the end these are the outlets “.