"It is their point of view. We can talk about that". Mgr. Eleuterio Fortino, Undersecretary of the Papal Council for the Unity of Christians and Co-Secretary of the Joint Commission for Dialogue, is not surprised at the position taken by the Patriarchate of Moscow about the "Ravenna document". "The problem he recalls is that they left and did not endorse the document. We can keep talking, but it is up to the Orthodox side to find a complete representation again". That the Patriarchate had to examine the text, therefore, was to be "expected". "How could Moscow’s favourable voice be established comments mgr. Fortino if it was not there". Mgr. Fortino recalls that "a similar event" to that of Ravenna had already happened at the plenary session of Bari (1986), when some Orthodox Churches had given up talking a pan-Orthodox Conference gathered in Chambésy in November had decided that: "Should either Church decide not to appoint any proxies to any such talks or to a given session if this decision is not taken on a pan-Orthodox scale, talks will go on". "We specifies mgr. Fortino do not go into such matters; if we can help, we will, but this is an inter-Orthodox problem".
