Emma Bonino
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"Emma Bonino"/Bra) is an Italian politician, who most recently served as Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs/Minister of Foreign Affairs. Previously she was a member of the European Parliament and a member of the Italian Senate. She served in the government of Italy as minister of international trade from 2006 to 2008. She is a leading member of the Italian Radicals, a political party which describes itself as a "liberale, liberista e libertario" (liberista means economic liberal or, better, libertarian in the American sense; libertario, here, denotes a form of cultural liberalism concerning moral issues, with some ideological connection with historical left-libertarianism). She graduated in modern languages and literature from Bocconi University in Milan in 1972.

A veteran legislator in Italian politics and an activist for various reform policies, she was elected as one of four vice presidents of the Senate on 6 May 2008.

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The states who prevented a force being deployed are an international scandal... an international disgrace, ... How can I tell them the Security Council doesn't see... doesn't listen... doesn't care.

The states who prevented a force being deployed are an international scandal...an international disgrace, ... How can I tell them the Security Council doesn't see...doesn't listen...doesn't care.

No one has left to flee the bombings, all I have spoken to have been expelled by force...we are faced with mass deportation.

Because of the regional context, because of where they come from, because of the complexity of the issue, without a strong commitment of the international community the Afghans know that they cannot do it themselves.

Landmark in a very difficult fragile development towards democracy.

Definitely, that means that 2,700 will be losers, [obviously]. Now, how and if they will accept the result of the ballot, that is something that is still under discussion, due also to the cultural [complexity] of the Afghan society.

The counting process will be quite long, and [will] then [be followed by] the preliminary [confirmation] of members [of parliament] selected. But then many [candidates] will definitely appeal [against] the results, so we will have a long period of appeals, that's why the final results will not be known before, I imagine, before the end of October.

While many polling stations around the country opened late -- and maintaining the secrecy of the vote was not always achieved -- polling procedures were generally followed by election officials.

I think that public schools should not be allowed to teach any religion. The question is not whether to teach Islamic religion, but that we shouldn't teach the Catholic one either.