It is necessary to remember that
Italy was once a nation that had many nationals moving abroad to
live, Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi on Wednesday in a
message marking the anniversary of the 1956 Bois du Cazier mine
disaster in Marcinelle, Belgium.
The colliery fire claimed the lives of 262 people, including
136 Italian migrant workers.
"We have been a nation of emigrants, we went out into the
world looking for work as foreigners," Moavero Milanesi said in
a message to Italians living abroad.
He added that it was necessary to remember this "when we see
the migrants of our troubled age arrive in Europe".
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