Last Monday, a tragic series of errors, negligence and accidents suddenly cast us into darkness, tears, wounds and mourning.

The presence of foreign banks in Italy must not be seen to be an invasion, but a state of mutual enrichment.

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

The spirit of cooperation has limited the damage which unfortunately has been very grave in terms of human life, production and infrastructure.

The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.

The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.

I'm proud to be able to call myself a European citizen, born in Italy.

I express my firmest condemnation of this new act of violence that, added with other cruel gestures carried out in that tormented country, does not help pacification or renewal.

The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.