{"id":19650,"date":"2012-06-14T09:01:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T07:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2012\/06\/20120614_nigeria_terzi-2\/"},"modified":"2012-06-14T09:01:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T07:01:58","slug":"20120614_nigeria_terzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2012\/06\/20120614_nigeria_terzi\/","title":{"rendered":"NIGERIA: New Arab constitutions should envisage protection for religious minorities, says Terzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Italy is working to \u201cfoster transformation processes in the Arab world\u201d that are inspired by \u201cthe consolidation of constitutions, values and principles that bring more protection for religious and cultural minorities\u201d. The new wave of attacks on Christians in Nigeria is \u201ca form of terrorism that is spreading alarmingly\u201d. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Our country hopes to see the protection of religious minorities incorporated in the constitutions of the countries of the Arab Spring. This was the comment made by Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi at the end of his meeting with the Secretary General of the Arab League, Nabil El Araby, with reference to the new wave of attacks on Christians in Nigeria. The meeting took place at the Foreign Ministry in Rome yesterday, 13 June 2012.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Fostering <\/STRONG><STRONG>transformation processes in the Arab world<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Italy, underscored Terzi, is working to \u201cfoster transformation processes in the Arab world\u201d that are inspired by \u201cthe consolidation of constitutions, values and principles that lead to more protection for religious and cultural minorities\u201d. El Araby explained that \u201cthese transition processes are still under way\u201d and will take time. He added that the Arab League has been asked, by various actors, \u201cto draw up a sort of \u2018bill of rights\u2019 for the Arab world\u201d. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Attacks on Christians a form of terrorism <\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>In Terzi\u2019s opinion, the new wave of attacks on Christians in Nigeria is \u201ca form of terrorism that is spreading alarmingly\u201d. Nigeria, he said, \u201cmust find instruments for collaboration with the countries of the region to combat and prevent the phenomenon\u201d. At the same time, the international community must provide the input of \u201cconcrete education and teacher-training projects and information campaigns for civil society to develop a different social conscience\u201d.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy is working to \u201cfoster transformation processes in the Arab world\u201d that are inspired by \u201cthe consolidation of constitutions, values and principles that bring more protection for religious and cultural minorities\u201d. The new wave of attacks on Christians in Nigeria is \u201ca form of terrorism that is spreading alarmingly\u201d. Our country hopes to see the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,43,76,404],"class_list":["post-19650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-africa","tag-diritti-umani","tag-ministri-precedenti","tag-sicurezza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19650","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=19650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}