"No Alternative to Peace," Says Vatican Newspaper

VATICAN CITY, FEB. 23, 2003 (Zenit.org).- As tension over Iraq mounts, it is «a duty to repeat» that peace is the only alternative, the Vatican’s semiofficial newspaper said.

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L’Osservatore Romano expressed that view today in a front-page article in its Italian daily edition entitled «There Is No Alternative to Peace.»

«International diplomacy cannot accept a precipitation toward war without having explored every path to avoid the conflict,» it said. «Every smallest possibility is for the better, so that from a crack a path may be opened to the hope of peace.»

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