Meeting on crisis in Yugoslavia

MEETING ON CRISIS IN YUGOSLAVIA

On the 18 May 1999, a meeting of the Informal International Christian Peace Group on Yugoslavia took place in Vienna.
Basic positions were agreed upon the peaceful solution of the crisis in Yugoslavia and concrete steps were decided upon in order to make these positions known to all parties in the conflict.

The participants were:
Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relation, Moscow Patriarchate
Dr. Keith Clements, General Secretary, Conference of European Churches
Mons. Celestino Migliore, Under-Secretary for the Holy See’s Relations with the States
Rev Canon Richard Marsh, Ecumenical Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury (for the Bishop of London)
Rev Jurgen Gohde, President of the Diaconical Service, EKD, Vice-President of “Eurodiaconia”
Pastor Jacques Stewart, President of Conference for Religion and Peace
Rev Paul Wilson, Director of the Europe office, NCCC
Brother Luc, Taize Community (for Brother Roger)
Rev. Dr. Hilarion Alfeyev, Secretary for Inter-Christian Affairs, Department for External Church Relations, Moscow Patriarchate
Mons. Ivan Jurkovic, Official of the Secretariat of State, Holy See