{"id":54499,"date":"2015-12-16T15:12:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T14:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2015\/12\/farnesina-porte-aperte-onu-giro-2\/"},"modified":"2015-12-16T15:12:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T14:12:04","slug":"farnesina-porte-aperte-onu-giro-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2015\/12\/farnesina-porte-aperte-onu-giro-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Farnesina Open Doors \u2013 UN &#8211; Giro, Multilateralist principles in Italy\u2019s DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italy has been a convinced member of the United Nations for 60 years because it has \u201cmultilateralism in it genetic makeup\u201d. Proof of this lies in a broad-based commitment in various international theatres, peace missions and human rights campaigns, as Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mario Giro pointed out. He was speaking at the opening of the annual \u201cFarnesina Open Doors\u201d, dedicated this year to the 60<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Italy\u2019s membership the UN and the 70<sup>th<\/sup> of the UN itself. The foreign ministry has mounted an exhibition for the occasion, entitled \u201cThe Challenge of Peace, Italy with the United Nations: 1945-2015\u201d. \u201cItaly has spared no effort in striving to achieve the objectives\u201d of the UN, convinced that multilateralism is \u201cthe only choice for a stable and peaceful international community\u201d, Giro explained. \u201cAt this moment of uncertainty\u201d, he added, \u201cwe may have some doubts, but we believe that the UN is essential precisely now\u201d, it being \u201cthe only setting we have for international dialogue\u201d. \u201cWithout the UN we would not have a more secure and stable world, nor would there be greater peace\u201d, Giro continued, \u201cand that is why Italy is so broadly committed within the UN\u201d, starting with our contributions to \u201cso many peacekeeping missions\u201d and the hospitality offered to \u201cnumerous UN agencies, a commitment by the government despite current financial restrictions\u201d. The under-secretary underscored that this \u201cis a collaboration that cannot but be continuously strengthened, which is why we are a candidate for a non-permanent seat on the Security Council for 2017\/2018\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The opening event also saw the participation of current President of the SIOI (Italian association for international organisation) Franco Frattini, who said he was convinced that \u201cnever before has there been such a need for the UN to continue and strengthen its efforts\u201d. On the risk of disaffection with the United Nations \u201cno one should let themselves be carried away by negative feelings\u201d, on the contrary, \u201cwe are working so that those efforts will have greater support\u201d. \u201cIf the UN sometimes struggles\u201d, he stressed, \u201cit is almost always because its members do not provide the conditions under which it needs to work\u201d For that reason, he concluded, it needs to be given \u201cmore tools and greater strength in order to work better\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy has been a convinced member of the United Nations for 60 years because it has \u201cmultilateralism in it genetic makeup\u201d. Proof of this lies in a broad-based commitment in various international theatres, peace missions and human rights campaigns, as Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mario Giro pointed out. He was speaking at the opening of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54499","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=54499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}