{"id":6772,"date":"2014-04-29T08:41:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T06:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2014\/04\/20140429_dellavedovasarajevo-2\/"},"modified":"2014-04-29T08:41:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T06:41:01","slug":"20140429_dellavedovasarajevo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2014\/04\/20140429_dellavedovasarajevo\/","title":{"rendered":"Della Vedova in Sarajevo: Italy supports European integration process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>\u201cEurope has listened to the citizens of Bosnia who want more jobs, more equality and fairness and less corruption. Now it\u2019s up to Bosnia\u2019s leaders to respond to these demands. Poverty, unemployment and social disadvantage are a daily concern for all of the country\u2019s young people, and for their parents \u2013 without distinction of creed or ethnic origin. 85% of them want a European future for Bosnia, as the surveys recently published by the Government show. For these reasons, Italy firmly supports the new European Union agenda \u2013 expanded to include concrete economic and social reforms\u201d. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>These were the comments made by Under-Secretary Benedetto Della Vedova during an official visit to Sarajevo. He w<A name=_GoBack><\/A>as speaking after his meeting with the Chairman of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bakir Izetbegovi\u0107, and with representatives of the other two Presidency members.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Assisted by Italian Ambassador Ruggero Corrias, Senator Della Vedova discussed bilateral relations and Bosnia\u2019s difficult economic and social situation. He also commented on the opportunities opened up by the European integration process, not least in light of the EU\u2019s new strategy for Bosnia as approved at the Foreign Affairs Council of 14 April 2014. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>\u201cItaly intends to support Bosnia in this new pathway\u201d, he observed, \u201cand, not least in light of our imminent EU Presidency, is paying close attention to developments in the situation in the period leading up to the October elections\u201d. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Senator Della Vedova, whose visit to Sarejevo continues today 28 April, will be meeting the Speaker of theHouse of Peoples and leader of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ), Dragan \u010covi\u0107; the Deputy Foreign Minister, Ana Tri\u0161i\u0107-Babi\u0107; the head of the EU Delegation, Peter S\u00f8rensen; and the High Representative, Valentin Inzko. A meeting with representatives of civil society and of the Plenums of the main towns and cities affected by the protests in February 2014 is also planned. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Lastly, Under-Secretary Della Vedova will visit the Ars Aevi, a museum of contemporary art \u2013 a true cultural gem \u2013 that Italy has promoted and supported since it was first created. <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEurope has listened to the citizens of Bosnia who want more jobs, more equality and fairness and less corruption. Now it\u2019s up to Bosnia\u2019s leaders to respond to these demands. Poverty, unemployment and social disadvantage are a daily concern for all of the country\u2019s young people, and for their parents \u2013 without distinction of creed [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,42],"class_list":["post-6772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comunicati","tag-europa","tag-unione-europea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6772","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=6772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}