President Rafael Correa will hold talks today at the Vatican with Pope Francis

(Source: Ecuadorian Presidency)

Today President Rafael Correa, along with Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño, and the Vice President of the National Assembly, Marcela Aguinaga, will hold talks at the Vatican with Pope Francis. Francesco Canalini, apostolic nuncio of the Vatican Secretariat of State, received the presidential delegation, which arrived yesterday at the Ciampino airport.

Besides the interview scheduled for today, President Correa will participate in the workshop “Protect the Earth, Dignify humanity,” organized by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which addresses climate change and the dignity of the human being. “We arrived in Rome, more beautiful than ever, in the spring,” Correa wrote on his Twitter account.