President Sergio Mattarella said
Wednesday "we are in a time when tensions seem to multiply and
artificially prevail", as well as "the exacerbation of clashes,
the emphasis on differences, and the short-sighted erection of
ideological and identity barriers that presuppose a permanent
opposition with the other".
Mattarella made his remarks in a speech commemorating the
Albanian military hero George Castriot Skanderbeg.
Skanderbeg was a nobleman who served the Ottoman Empire in
1423-43, the Republic of Venice in 1443-47, and lastly the
Kingdom of Naples until his death in 1468.
After leaving Ottoman service, he led a rebellion against the
Ottoman Empire in what is today Albania and Macedonia.
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