DECR MP Chairman meets with the Ambassador of the Netherlands

On 22 December 2005, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Russia Jan-Paul Dirkse who was appointed to Moscow in November 2005.

Different questions concerning work of the Russian Orthodox Church both in Russia and abroad were discussed. Metropolitan Kirill told about the revival of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ambassador showed a keen interest to his story. Both sides noted the importance of religious factor in intercultural and intercivilizational dialogue and in the relations between Russian and the EU.