The Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Giorgio Silli, today led the Italian delegation at the commemoration of the Marcinelle mining tragedy in Belgium, held on the occasion of the twenty-fourth \u201cNational Day of Sacrifice of Italian Workers in the World\u201d.<\/p>\n
The ceremony took place at the Bois du Cazier, the site of the disaster where, on 8 August 1956, 262 miners of twelve different nationalities lost their lives \u2013 including 136 Italians, many of them originally from the Abruzzo region.<\/p>\n
During the ceremony, Undersecretary Silli delivered the message of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, highlighting the importance of remembrance and the value of the sacrifice made by Italian workers abroad \u2013 a powerful reminder of the need to protect workplace safety and the dignity of labour.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe tragedy of Marcinelle,\u201d stated Undersecretary Silli in his message, \u201cforms part of our shared history, which strengthens the bond between Italy and Belgium \u2013 between our peoples and our institutions\u201d. \u201cIt is from this shared memory,\u201d he concluded, \u201cthat we must build a more just and more united European Union \u2013 one that values diversity and protects the rights of all\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Giorgio Silli, today led the Italian delegation at the commemoration of the Marcinelle mining tragedy in Belgium, held on the occasion of the twenty-fourth \u201cNational Day of Sacrifice of Italian Workers in the World\u201d. The ceremony took place at the Bois du Cazier, the site […]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,7,28,388],"class_list":["post-142805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comunicati","tag-europa","tag-italiani-nel-mondo","tag-ministro","tag-sottosegretario-giorgio-silli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142805","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142808,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142805\/revisions\/142808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}