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Fri 01 Jan 2007Talks on meeting of pope, Russian patriarchDiscussions on a meeting between the Pope and the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox have been taking place in Rome and Moscow, the most senior Irishman at the Vatican has said.Bishop Brian Farrell, who is from Dublin, said a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and Patriarch Alexius II would most likely take place at a neutral venue. Secretary of the Vatican's Council for Promoting Christian Unity, he said relations between the two churches had "improved enormously" under this papacy.