Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano
said Tuesday Italy had joined the United Nations Security
Council "in a 2017 that looks like being full of commitments and
increased international responsibilities for our country."
He said "the special session of the Security Council, in the
course of the morning, focuses on the issue of the prevention of
conflicts and reaching a sustainable peace".
Alfano said "in this seat I will bring high the voice of
Italy which has an appreciated and multi-year experience in the
sector, bringing, together with my colleagues, some innovative
points to include the safeguard of the environment and the
cultural heritage in the framework of an updated and integrated
vision of the action of prevention".
"In this framework must be inserted the meeting with Antonio
Guterres, the new United Nations Secretary-General, who started
his mandate on January 1 and who is seeking, also with our
support, a strengthened role of coordination in the crucial
sectors of wide-ranging security".
"It is during the talks with Guterres that I will address,
among other things, issues of utmost importance such as the
reform of the SEcurity Council and the functioning of the
Organisation, towards which Italy brings advanced proposals and
solutions".
"To complete such an important day," Alafano concluded, "I
will inaugurate with my colleague from the Netherlands, Bert
Koenders, the fascinating photographic show on the 'Pillars of
Cooperation' and I will meet the President of the General
Assembly, Fiji's Peter Thomson, to discuss ways of organising
the work.
"At the end, a series of bilateral talks with colleagues from
the United Kingdom, Kazakhstan and Ethiopia".
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