EU High Representative Catherine Ashton \u201chas committed to undertaking any possible further step toward a positive solution\u201d to the affair involving two Italian servicemen in India. This was the message of Premier Mario Monti in a note issued in Brussels after a meeting with the High Representative, during which she supplied the Italian Premier with the latest news on contacts between the EU delegation and the Delhi authorities. <\/P>
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Ashton, the premier\u2019s note reads, \u201cunderscored the need for the Delhi authorities to view this incident within the context of international cooperation efforts to combat piracy\u201d. And to give \u201cfurther impetus to the discussion under way for the drafting of international rules on the presence of armed forces personnel on board mercantile ships\u201d. Monti and the High Representative said they would maintain \u201cclose contact\u201d as they monitored developments in the situation. <\/P>
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The EU delegation\u2019s contacts in India are the result of the intervention by Italian Premier Mario Monti and Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi, beginning with the European Council\u2019s in early March. On the recent occasion of the informal meeting of EU foreign ministers\u2019 in Copenhagen, the head of Italian diplomacy had a face-to-face meeting with Mrs. Ashton herself. This is a step-by-step undertaking that must be viewed within the context of Italy\u2019s broader efforts at raising international awareness of the incident regarding two Italian servicemen detained in India. Efforts aimed, Minister Terzi underscored, at explaining how it is \u201cfundamental not only for Italy, but for all the EU members, that the principle of free navigation be protected and that there be protection and recognition of the bodies of any State acting legitimately within the framework of UN resolutions, as well as for ships waving national flags\u201d. From Copenhagen, Mrs. Ashton\u2019s spokesperson Michael Mann asserted that the European Union intended to \u201censure its support\u201d for Italy in seeking a positive solution to the incident, specifying that Ashton and Terzi had agreed to maintain \u201cclose contact\u201d.<\/P>
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MARINES: Monti in Brussels to meet Ashton. De Mistura speaks with the two servicemen in India<\/STRONG><\/STRONG><\/P> La vicenda dei due maro\u2019 italiani detenuti in India e\u2019 stata al centro di un incontro a Bruxelles del premier Mario Monti con l\u2019Alto rappresentante degli Esteri Ue Catherine Ashton, mentre in India il Sottosegretario agli Esteri Staffan De Mistura ha di nuovo incontrato nel carcere centrale di Trivandrum i due militari italiani, Massimiliano Latorre e Salvatore Girone. \u201cAbbiamo parlato della strategia da applicare per uscire da questa situazione – ha spiegato De Mistura – e ho precisato che considero loro non semplicemente parte, ma protagonisti di questa azione”. Il Sottosegretario partir\u00e0 domattina per rientrare a Roma via Dubai, sostituito sul campo dal Direttore Centrale per l’Asia della Farnesina e dall’Ambasciatore a New Delhi, Giacomo Sanfelice.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EU High Representative Catherine Ashton \u201chas committed to undertaking any possible further step toward a positive solution\u201d to the affair involving two Italian servicemen in India. This was the message of Premier Mario Monti in a note issued in Brussels after a meeting with the High Representative, during which she supplied the Italian Premier with […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,42],"class_list":["post-20605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-asia-e-oceania","tag-unione-europea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20605","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=20605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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