Vienna, Austria, Mar 10, 2009 / 10:14 am
Last Thursday in Vienna, Austria, Archbishop Edmond Farhat, apostolic nuncio to Austria, and Michael Spindelegger, Austrian federal minister for European and International Affairs, signed the sixth additional agreement of the Convention Regulating Patrimonial Relations between the Vatican and Austria.
Representing the Church was Msgr. Christoph Kuhn, nunciature counselor in Austria and by Walter Hagel, legal advisor to the Austrian Bishop's Conference.
Those in attendance from Austria were Ambassador Melitta Schubert, head of protocol for the ministry; Ambassador Nikolaus Marschik, the minister's chief of cabinet; Ambassador Helmut Tichy, vice director of the office for questions of international law; Minister-Counselor Georg Stillfried, head of department; Minister-Counselor Karin Proidl, counselor on the minister's cabinet, and Harald Stranzl, vice head of the minister's press and information office.
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