Vatican agrees to U.N. conventions on protecting ozone

Published: 2008-05-09

UNITED NATIONS (CNS) -- By acceding to U.N. conventions on the protection of the ozone layer, the Vatican said it hopes to encourage the world community to support and implement existing treaties. "The Holy See desires to encourage the entire international community to be resolute in promoting authentic cooperation between politics, science and economics," said a Vatican declaration. Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations, released the declaration May 5 at the U.N. headquarters in New York of the Vatican's accession to the Vienna Convention on the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, as well as its four amendments. The declaration, dated April 9, said the Vatican "intends to give its own moral support to the commitment of states to the correct and effective implementation of the treaties in question and to the attaining of the mentioned objectives."

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