Republic Day, Mattarella leaves the ambassadors of Russia and Belarus “at home”
The Russian and Belarusian ambassadors are not seated under the frescoes in the Corazzieri hall at Quirinale to listen to the notes of Beethoven And Mascagni: the invitation to the concert offered by Sergio Mattarella to the diplomatic corps accredited to Rome to celebrate the Republic Day has not come. And the President of the Republic dedicates a good part of his short speech to the “aggression against Ukraine by the Russian Federation“.
To the Quirinale the controversies related to the hypothesis of a mission to Moscow and the meetings with Sergey Razov from Matteo Salvini they do not arrive, but we strictly adhere to the invitation addressed in May by the EU member countries not to involve the Russian and Belarusian ambassadors in the various national celebrations. And the intervention of the Head of State is aimed at seeking “with clarity and courage to put an end to the senselessness of war and promote the reasons for peace”. Mattarella does not discount a Flyasks that the occupying troops withdraw and warns against the risk of the darkest scenarios of a “humanity protagonist of its own ruin” coming true after international rules have been broken.
Then he puts back in line the constitutional principles on which the life and history of the Republic, “born, by the will of the Italian people, seventy-six years ago”. Speaking to the representatives of countries around the world, in a short ceremony that this year does not follow the reception in the gardens, the President reminds us that “with the Constitution Italy has embarked on the path of multilateralismchoosing not to have enemy countries “. And the method is” the consolidation of one international community aware of the interdependence of the destinies of peoples, in mutual respect, to universally guarantee peace, development, promotion of human rights “.
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