Premier Matteo Renzi said
Tuesday his Home Italy plan to make the country anti-seismic
will take years to complete.
"We must imagine a challenge lasting not months but years,"
he said after a devastating August 24, 6.2-magnitude earthquake
destroyed several mountain villages in central Italy and claimed
295 lives.
"It's a job that musn't produce results tomorrow morning
but must represent... true prevention and professionalism. We're
here to ask you to participate with your assessments, your roles
and your technical contributions in a job I think should take at
least a decade, without a political battle developing over it".
Renzi spoke during a meeting at the premier's office in
Rome between government, Milan Polytechnic University Dean
Giovanni Azzone, National Association of Italian Municipalities
(ANCI) chief Piero Fassino, Rieti Province President Giuseppe
Rinaldi representing the Union of Italian Provinces (UPI), and a
representative from the Conference of Regions.
Post-quake reconstruction is "an infrastructural challenge"
that must bring together work on "schools, drainage, wideband,
hydrogeological instability, urban peripheries, sporting
facilities - all articulated together in an overall project with
clear guidelines and comprehensive leadership," Renzi explained.
"I would like all mayors, governors and administrators to
get the message that in Italy we are at the drawing board once
again - we're coming up with engineering and construction design
projects using new criteria and vanguard technologies," the
premier said.
This, Renzi said, is why he has called on the expertise of
the Milan Polytechnic dean.
"(Azzone) is the top authority in the field," Renzi said.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © Copyright ANSA
