GENEVA
National Catholic Register
by CNA/EWTN NEWS 05/23/2014
GENEVA — A U.N. anti-torture committee report has said that the Holy See did not violate the international Convention Against Torture.
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the apostolic nuncio leading the Holy See’s permanent observer mission to the United Nations in Geneva, told Vatican Radio the committee’s observations are “an acknowledgement of the good-faith efforts of the Holy See to comply [with] always and to advance the Convention Against Torture.”
The U.N. Committee on the Convention Against Torture released an advanced unedited version of its concluding observations on May 23.
“The committee did not conclude that the Holy See, its officials and those acting on its behalf, in conjunction with it or under its direction or control have violated the Convention Against Torture,” the Holy See stressed in a communiqué.
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