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In 1987, when Pope John Paul II visited Chile, Pinochet availed of the visit that the Pope regularly paid to a country's head of state to get the Pope to appear with him at a balcony of the presidential palace, although this was not in the agreed programme.

On the other hand, Sodano arranged a meeting in the nunciature between the Pope and the leaders of the opposition.