THE PRESIDENT ON A STATE VISIT TO S.M.O.M.

H. E. Prof. Guido de Marco, President of Malta leaves tomorrow for Rome where he will make a State Visit to H.M.E. Fra Andrew Bertie, Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta.

The meeting will be held on Sunday morning at the S.M.O.M. world headquarters at Palazzo Magistrale in Rome. The President will be accompanied by Mrs. de Marco, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Joe Borg, the Ambassador of Malta to the S.M.O.M. Chev. Jimmy Farrugia, and the Secetary to the Cabinet, Mr Alfred Fiorini Lowell. The Grand Master's delegation will include the Count Don Carlo Marullo di Condojanni, Prince of Casalnuovo and Grand Chancellor of the Order, Dr Francesco Guariglia, Secretary General for International Affairs of the Order and the Ambassador of the Order to Malta Prince Sforza Mariscotto Ruspoli.

The Grand Master will bestow upon the President, the Collar of the Order Pro Merito Melitense.

The President's first State Visit to the Order coincides with the end of the Order's 900^th anniversary celebrations which came to a close recently with a mass at St John's Oratory of St John's Co-Cathedral.

14.01.2000