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Accord Signed
in Jerusalem

Rome (JTA) — The choice of
Jerusalem as the site for the
signing of a historic accord
establishing diplomatic rela-
tions between Israel and the
Vatican is being viewed as a
sign that the Holy See now
implicitly recognizes the city
as Israel's capital.
The selection of Jerusalem
"represents a great satisfac-
tion for the Israelis," Marco
Politi, a veteran Vatican
correspondent, wrote in the
Rome daily La Repubblica.
The signing represents the
culmination of more than a
year of complicated negotia-
tions undertaken by an
Israeli-Vatican bilateral
commission, which worked
out the language and terms
of the accord.
Under the terms of the
agreement, Israel and the
Vatican will exchange
"special representatives"
immediately. Within four
months, they are scheduled
to exchange ambassadors.
The agreement also re-
portedly includes a commit-
ment by the Roman Catholic
Church to oppose anti-
Semitism throughout the
world and to support the
current Middle East peace
process.
Israel, in turn, has re-
portedly agreed to respect
the religious rights of all
Catholics and to allow the
church to operate schools,
run charities and own prop-
erty in Israel.
In a reflection of the dra-
matic turning point in
Israeli- Vatican relations
that the agreement repre-
sents, Pope John Paul II may
soon pay an official visit to
Israel.
He announced this month
that he plans to visit Leb-
anon in the spring and that
he hopes to visit Israel after
that.
Vatican spokesman Joa-
quin Navarro Valls stressed
that the decision of the Vat-
ican to recognize Israel fully
was the fruit of a long series
of steps above and beyond
the negotiations of the
bilateral commission. He
said it was the pope who
gave the process the final
push toward completion.
According to news reports
in Italy, the sharpest
criticism of the new rela-
tionship between the Vat-
ican and Israel has come
from Iran.
The criticism came in an
editorial by the Iranian
news agency IRNA, which
also criticized the pope for
planning to visit Israel. LI

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