There is no more time, there are “numerous urgencies that we are facing” and the answers can no longer be postponed. “This is the appeal of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, in the toast on the occasion of the lunch in honor of the Heads of State and Government and other personalities participating in the G20 Summit. “The pandemic has dramatically made clear that no one – regardless of the size of its economy – is able to tackle, alone, problems that affect the general condition of humanity“.” Multilateralism and cooperation – the Head of State reiterated – represent the only concrete and effective responses to the difficulties and tensions that cross the planet. It is a simple statement of fact and not an abstract statement of principle “.
“In addressing the issues that characterized the G20 presidency, Italy wanted to involve the various expressions of civil society and in particular young people. We are indebted to them. We must not hand over a planet to those who will come after us. furrowed by conflicts, whose resources have been squandered, whose ecosystem has been compromised due to the selfishness of those who have been unable to combine the legitimate aspiration for economic and social growth with the need to protect what does not belong to us. in turn we have received it from previous generations “.
“It is up to us – continued the Head of State – to make a decisive change to overcome these burdens. Now is the moment. The eyes of billions of people, of entire peoples, are focused on us and on the results we will be able to achieve. I am confident that our countries will respond to the appeal that comes from world public opinion. We will be up to it if we succeed in rediscovering the thread of collaboration and the sense of responsibility that today’s growing interdependence between peoples and nations of the planet imposes on us “.
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