{"id":13107,"date":"2014-05-07T16:54:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T14:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2014\/05\/20140507_mogherini_in_parlamento-2\/"},"modified":"2014-05-07T16:54:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T14:54:39","slug":"20140507_mogherini_in_parlamento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2014\/05\/20140507_mogherini_in_parlamento\/","title":{"rendered":"Mogherini in Parliament: Opening of international procedure for the two marines. Difficult dialogue on Ukraine but it is the only way. Geneva agreement the \u201clodestar\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini attended this week\u2019s \u201cquestion time\u201d at the Chamber of Deputies and spoke about the two Italian marines, Ukraine, relations with Russia and religious freedom. <\/P>
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Answering questions about the two Italian marines, Minister Mogherini said that she had spoken to them by phone \u201cto inform them of all the steps in the new course of action we are undertaking\u201d through an international procedure that will be \u201cneither simple nor brief. It\u2019s the pathway which the Parliament as a whole, with unanimous and firm support, has urged the government to follow. We will go on working with conviction on this pathway in the hope of bringing them home as soon as possible\u201d. <\/P>
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Ukraine: Mogherini\u2013Steinmeier bilateral in Rome <\/STRONG><\/P>
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Minister Mogherini told the Chamber that she will be meeting the German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in Rome on Thursday 8 May for a bilateral during which they will discuss the Ukrainian crisis. She underscored that \u201cit is vi<\/A>tally important for the international community to focus its efforts in the same direction: that of dialogue, which is extremely difficult. But the only real solution is a political one, and dialogue is the only option\u201d. The Minister reminded her colleagues that the Geneva agreements are the \u201clodestar on which we continue to work\u201d. <\/P>
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Dialogue: difficult, but the only way<\/STRONG><\/P>
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Mogherini reiterated that \u201ceven during the latest dramatic events on the ground, with an equally dramatic deterioration in the situation, the only real solution is a political one \u2013 there is no alternative to dialogue [\u2026] We need to do everything possible to ensure that the dialogue is resumed\u201d. <\/P>
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In Minister Mogherini\u2019s view, there are different questions that must be addressed: \u201csupport for a constitutional reform process that must keep pace with the electoral process \u2013 and which is suffering some delays \u2013 and must be inclusive\u201d. And then there is the electoral process, for which a ceasefire will be needed if the elections are to take place peacefully on 25 May. \u201cWe believe\u201d, she added, \u201cand discussions are under way, that they must then be followed by a general election. The OSCE has a vital role to play as the international organisation tasked with playing a positive role on the ground to facilitate dialogue\u201d.<\/P>
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Relations with Russia<\/STRONG><\/P>
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Moscow\u2019s return to its role as an active member of the G8 is in the \u201ccommon interest\u201d, Minister Mogherini told the Chamber. \u201cWe hope that Russia\u2019s conduct will enable the organisation to return to its original format\u201d. Italy has always hoped to see Russia once again act as a \u201cresponsible partner\u201d of the club of the world\u2019s 8 leading nations: a topic that the foreign minister discussed with her Russian counterpart, Lavrov, to whom she underscored the need for Moscow to respect the Geneva agreements. <\/P>
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Religious freedom: global database planned, Mogherini tells Parliament <\/STRONG><\/P>
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A global database to compare the various legislative frameworks and arrive at a model set of regulations to guarantee full religious freedom. That is the \u201cinnovative initiative\u201d that will be introduced during the Italian Presidency of the European Union, in partnership with the countries most closely concerned and in synergy with civil society and religious communities. <\/P>
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Italy has long been actively engaged on issues of religious freedom, mainly in the EU context but also in the United Nations. \u201cWe will continue our efforts\u201d, Mogherini assured the Chamber, \u201cwith preventive and awareness-raising initiatives in the countries concerned. We are convinced that religious freedom is a vital element of international relations too. But it must never be exploited because it is a heritage of humanity\u201d. <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini attended this week\u2019s \u201cquestion time\u201d at the Chamber of Deputies and spoke about the two Italian marines, Ukraine, relations with Russia and religious freedom. Answering questions about the two Italian marines, Minister Mogherini said that she had spoken to them by phone \u201cto inform them of all the steps in the […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-13107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-ministri-precedenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}