Cardinal Parolin: Dialogue is the way out of the cycle of war

Vatican News

The Apostolic Chair is very anxious about the “risk of escalating conflict” in Ukraine, which will lead to “more suffering and new victims”, while realizing that “it would be unaware of removing the right to defend themselves.”

This is the position expressed by the Cardinal Foreign Minister, Petro Barolin, in an interview granted to La Repubblica About major international issues.

“Since Pope Francis has mentioned again and again, La Paz has not been imposed, it is based on patience, day after day, with dialogue and mutual respect,” Barolin said, Burolin showed his appreciation for any initiative that could lead to peace, because “this war cannot continue.”

Get out of the cycle of permanent conflict

The main problem, according to the Cardinal, “is an increasingly individual vision of man and increasing confidence between members of the international community. No one trusts anyone anymore. This climate generates fear, nomination, preventive treatments and a vortex of permanent conflicts.”

“The starting point”, that is, the Apostolic Chair “clearly supports regional sovereignty and integrity in Ukraine,” Baroline notes that “the Ukrainians themselves are compatible with them to decide what they will want to negotiate or eventually give them from this point of view.”

A fair and permanent peace, according to Cardinal, will not be possible unless it depends on “respect for justice and international law.”

The United States of America from Trump and the multi -party

The Foreign Minister, tomorrow, April 19, will receive US Vice President JD Vance, who is visiting Rome, the answers below in the interview with a question about Trump’s policy and multiple parties. “It is clear that the current American administration’s approach is completely different from what we are used to,” says Barolin.

“The Apostolic Chair – explains – constantly supports a multilateral approach and believes that international law and the consensus of countries must be always preferred.”

A role in defending pluralism that must first correspond to Europe. “In this perspective – confirms – expression armingAnd that is always from closure and new conflicts, it seems unfortunate to justify Europe’s need to invest in its defense, as well as in light of the misunderstanding of the United States in this regard.

The Foreign Minister excludes that, due to many wars, we are before “the zero year in the dialogue of recognition: it should not fall – in the trap that we face confrontations of a religious nature” because “if it is related to religion and spiritual values ​​for much more purposes.”

The importance of dialogue

On the destruction of Gaza, Parolin talks about data and “terrible, human and morally unacceptable.” “Legal defense is legal – declares – but it can never mean the total or partial extermination of another people or deny their right to live in their land.”

In response to a question about relations with China, Cardinal confirmed that “the Apostolic Chair certainly maintains the desire to obtain a link of its own link in Beijing,” a step that remains at the present time “within the desired scope.”

Among the Foreign Minister, finally, a call to the importance of the dialogue: “I think that the biggest contribution can be contributed by the graphic vision in the current international panorama is specifically those in the dialogue: testimony of its importance and practice in the first person, even when it is difficult, even when it is an option that is not popular, even when it must seem meaningless and skilled.”