"We are hopeful of reaching an agreement before the end of the tariff suspension on 9 July."
China first broke off diplomatic ties with the Holy See in 1951, and many Catholics were forced to go underground during former communist leader Mao Zedong's rule, emerging only in the 1980s when religious practices were tolerated again.A police officer has told jurors how the defendant in the Daniel Anjorin murder trial slashed at him with a "large sword".
Insp Moloy Campbell told the Old Bailey that he saw blood when he looked down at his hand after being attacked in Hainault, north-east London, in April last year.Marcus Arduini Monzo, 37, denies murdering 14-year-old Daniel - who was on his way to school - and attempting to kill four others during a 20-minute series of attacks.Insp Moloy said he was "disappointed" to be injured as this hampered his pursuit of Mr Monzo, adding: "It was frightening. I remember my priority to try to carry on."
The Old Bailey has heard that before the attacks he allegedly carried out, Mr Monzo killed, skinned and deboned his pet cat Wizard.Jurors were told that during the rampage Mr Monzo fatally struck Daniel on the head with a sword, and attacked a pedestrian, two police officers and a couple in their own home.
Afterwards, he likened events to the Hollywood movie The Hunger Games and claimed to have an alternative personality of a "professional assassin", the Old Bailey has been told.
Insp Campbell told told the court that before arriving at the scene, he heard on the radio that one of his colleagues had been stabbed.James Young, 81, was travelling home from a holiday on the Greek island of Rhodes with his wife when he fell about 5ft while being transported on an airport ambulift.
Mr Young was said to have landed "on his hands and knees" and was rushed to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh for treatment following the fall on 28 November 2023.Edinburgh Airport said it accepted the decision of the court and offered "sincere condolences" to Mr Young's family.
He suffered a punctured lung, spine fractures and a fractured pelvis as well as a flail chest, where multiple broken ribs cause the chest wall to become unstable and interfere with breathing.Mr Young, from Edinburgh, suffered a heart attack two days later and clinicians concluded "the totality of his injuries and medical condition were not survivable".