(VIS) On 27 January, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Malta, the third additional
protocol to the agreement between the Holy See and the Republic of Malta of 3 February
1993 on the recognition of civil effects to canonical marriages and the decisions
of the Authorities and ecclesiastical tribunals on the same marriages.
The
agreement was signed on behalf of the Holy See by Archbishop Aldo Cavalli, apostolic
nuncio to Malta, as Plenipotentiary, and for the Republic of Malta by George W. Vella,
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malta.
The Third Additional Protocol, which
consists of four articles, amends the aforementioned Agreement of 1993.