In a meeting with the Italian press at the conclusion of the 13th Italo-Russian Cooperation Council held in Moscow yesterday, Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi expressed his \u201ctruly highest hope\u201d to obtain the Indian authorities\u2019 permission for the temporary release of the two marines for Christmas.<\/P>
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\u201cMy highest hope is to be able to welcome them back to Italy for Christmas\u201d, said the minister. \u201cThe High Court of Kerala will review the request for the two sharp-shooters\u2019 temporary return to their families for the holidays, as I believe is absolutely imperative for reasons that go beyond legal and jurisdictional questions\u201d. <\/P>
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Terzi, who said he had already spoken of the request for permission with the \u201chighest levels\u201d of the government of Delhi \u201ca couple of weeks ago\u201d, then stressed that this would be \u201ca truly human gesture that the Indian authorities should fully agree with\u201d. The minister also held a bilateral meeting today with Russian Vice-Premier Arkady Dvorkovich \u2013 co-chairman of the Cooperation Council \u2013 who said he had recently discussed the affair \u201cwith highly placed members of the Russian government\u201d that had expressed their solidarity. \u201cI had the impression that, where the solid friendship between the Russian Federation and India offers the possibility to exert influence, they would be willing to do so\u201d, he said, \u201cas they have been in the past, but now perhaps in an even more decisive way\u201d.<\/P>
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Nevertheless, Italy\u2019s top diplomat ruled out the need for mediation and specified that the case would be \u201cresolved by Italy with India in a context in which the voice of the international community is of paramount importance\u201d.<\/P>
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\u201cThe authoritative reputation of the Indian Supreme Court, which is examining the fundamental point of our officers\u2019 functional jurisdiction, and the ample independence and profound knowledge of international law that these judges have always demonstrated\u201d, he concluded, \u201care all elements that inspire in me and in the entire government the firmest confidence that the question will rapidly be resolved\u201d. (AGI)<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a meeting with the Italian press at the conclusion of the 13th Italo-Russian Cooperation Council held in Moscow yesterday, Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi expressed his \u201ctruly highest hope\u201d to obtain the Indian authorities\u2019 permission for the temporary release of the two marines for Christmas. \u201cMy highest hope is to be able to […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,76],"class_list":["post-8029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comunicati","tag-asia-e-oceania","tag-ministri-precedenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8029","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=8029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}