\u201cWe are ready and determined to go as high as possible. We will never give up on our servicemen\u201d. This is a \u201cfundamental fact, it\u2019s happened to us today, tomorrow it could happen to anyone, even the Indians themselves who have military abroad\u201d. This was the comment from Under-Secretary Staffan De Mistura during the customary weekly press briefing at the foreign ministry in Rome, in the course of which Minister Terzi\u2019s spokesperson Giuseppe Manzo laid out the minister\u2019s international agenda and gave an update on the kidnapping of Italian national Paolo Bosusco, who is still being held by Maoist rebels in India. The man has reported to be in good condition. Manzo also reported that Italian Ambassador Giacomo Sanfelice had spoken with the Chief Minister of Orissa, who had \u201cconfirmed the Indian authorities\u2019 maximum commitment\u201d to securing the release of Bosusco. Manzo also added that Italy had reiterated that \u201cthe absolute priority of the hostage\u2019s safety\u201d.<\/P>
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Under-Secretary De Mistura, who is preparing to leave again for India, and will be in Kerala on 30 March when the Indian authorities announce their ruling, said we must not to have too many illusions, but \u201cneither should they have too many illusions\u201d, and in the case they decided that \u201cthe jurisdiction is theirs, we will take that ruling and put it to debate\u201d. De Mistura said that \u201cwe will not rest easy until we have brought our marines home\u201d. The Under-Secretary specified that the High Court of Kerala had decided to postpone its ruling on jurisdiction in an effort \u201cto better prepare for a ruling\u201d, reiterating that \u201ctheir decision on jurisdiction is very important to us\u201d. De Mistura pointed out that \u201cthey take very seriously the fact that we take the question very seriously\u201d. In any case, \u201cwe must keep our wits about us\u201d. <\/P>
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\u201cIf the ballistics report shows that the ammunition is Italian, our strategy is clear\u201d, De Mistura asserted, \u201cthe marines were defending an Italian ship and there were also 19 Indian marines on board\u201d. \u201cThere was and still is a need for deterrence\u201d against acts of piracy, and for that reason \u201cwe want our foreign-deployed troops judged in our country\u201d. According to De Mistura, the presence in India of our Carabinieri \u201cis helping us to ascertain whether the ballistics study has been done properly\u201d. But in his opinion, \u201cthere have been no tricks\u201d. At most there could be some \u201celements of technical weakness\u201d. The Under-Secretary supposed that the Indian authorities were already in possession of the ballistics results and that the delays \u2013 also for the jurisdiction ruling \u2013 were somehow justified by the fact that Indian justice \u201cfinds itself on complicated terrain since there are not many precedents\u201d.<\/P>
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\u201cUnacceptable\u201d, moreover, is the situation of the ship the Enrica Lexie, which is still being detained in the Indian port with four other Italian marines on board, in addition to the other two detainees. De Mistura recalled that Defence Minister Giampaolo Di Paola was leaving today for India, first to Trivandrum \u201cto visit our marines and offer support\u201d, and then to New Delhi to meet with his counterpart and pursue efforts toward a solution to the affair. De Mistura himself will be making \u201ctargeted, frequent and pressing\u201d visits from now on. The Under-Secretary then reiterated that he would convey to the Indian authorities our \u201csadness for the death of the two fishermen\u201d and the promise that \u201cwe will not forget about them\u201d.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe are ready and determined to go as high as possible. We will never give up on our servicemen\u201d. This is a \u201cfundamental fact, it\u2019s happened to us today, tomorrow it could happen to anyone, even the Indians themselves who have military abroad\u201d. This was the comment from Under-Secretary Staffan De Mistura during the customary […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,7,399],"class_list":["post-20370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-asia-e-oceania","tag-italiani-nel-mondo","tag-vice-ministri-e-sottosegretari-precedenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20370","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=20370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}