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The spirit of international cooperation requires that, beyond the strict market mentality, there should be an awareness of the duty to solidarity, justice and universal charity. Cf. Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio, 44: AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 59 (1967) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1967), 279. In fact, there exists “something which is due to man because he is man, by reason of his lofty dignity”. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 34: AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 83 (1991) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1991), 836. Cooperation is the path to which the entire international community should be committed, “according to an adequate notion of the common good in relation to the whole human family”. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 58: AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 83 (1991) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1991), 863. Many positive results flow from this; for example, an increase of confidence in the potential of poor people and therefore of poor countries and an equitable distribution of goods.
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