Two meetings were held today, in
Santa Lucia di Pirano and in Rijeka, between former minister
Carlo Giovanardi and the Italian Union of Slovenia and Croatia,
chaired by Maurizio Tremul. In St. Lucia, reads a note, the
Consul General of Italy in Slovenia Giovanni Coviello and the
president of the Coastal Self-Governing Community of the Italian
Nationality in Koper,Alberto Scheriani, were present; in Rijeka
Furio Radin, deputy of the Italian National Community and
vice-president of the Croatian Parliament, Jessica Acquavita,
vice-president of the Istrian Region, Enea Dessardo, president
of the Community of Italians in Rijeka, and Consul General of
Italy in Rijeka Iva Palmieri. Radin argued that each National
Minority Community must have the rights that belong to it
historically and by its own evolution, representing the
autochthony of the three minorities in the political and social
contexts of the three states.Giovanardi said that the indigenous
Italian minority in Slovenia and Croatia and the Slovenian and
Croatian minorities in Italy, all of which are currently full
members of the European Union, must have equal treatment with
regard to toponymy, schools in their mother tongue, respect for
their culture, and official public use of the minority language
on bilingual territories.
The former Pdl minister recalled that Istria has become a
model of coexistence between the remaining indigenous Italian
Community and the Croatian majority, while unfortunately in
Rijeka and Zadar the rights of the remaining Italian Minority
are still struggling to assert themselves. Finally, he
emphasized that Croatia, Italy and Slovenia can be points of
reference all over the world for their model of peaceful
coexistence that can be an example everywhere to avoid the risk
of new conflicts based on anachronistic nationalistic claims as
in Russia's aggression against Ukraine. Tremul confirmed the
intention of the Italian Union of Slovenia and Croatia to take
an active part so that this model of coexistence can be fully
implemented and be an example to be imitated wherever there are
conflicts.
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