The Foreign Ministry informs that today Italy submitted a request to the summer recess Supreme Court of India to urgently enforce the decision of The Hague Court of Arbitration of 29 April enabling Italian marine Salvatore Girone to quickly return to Italy. According to the Court of Arbitration decision, Italy and India are called on to cooperate in defining the conditions and the ways with which to regulate Salvatore Girone’s return and permanence in Italy while awaiting the decision of the arbitration proceeding on the dispute over the jurisdiction on the Enrica Lexie case.
The Indian Supreme Court hearing to examine the issue is scheduled for Thursday, 26 May.