Scandiano (Reggio Emilia), 30 August 2021 – “This week we will convene a control room with all the ministries that will also dialogue with the Regions and Municipalities to ensure training for Afghan children“. It is the commitment of the Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio intervened in video connection at a meeting in Scandiano, in the province of Reggio Emilia, where he spoke at the presentation of the book “The country we want”, written by the President of the Region, Stefano Bonaccini. The head of the Farnesina and the governor spoke with the director of the QN-il Resto del Carlino, Michele It shines, in a crowded piazza Fiume.
“We can not give the lists of those to be evacuated to the Taliban. We – explained the minister – cannot make humanitarian corridors immediately from Afghanistan, because we should give the list of those we want to bring to Italy to the Taliban authorities. We have to work with Neighboring countries with Afghanistan. With Pakistan, Iran, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan where refugees are fleeing in these hours. We will support immigration in these countries and create corridors to give a better future to women and children “, indicated the Di Maio route, thus launching the so-called ‘Phase 2’, that is” the operational plan for the Afghan people who will start next week “.
“We did not let Ambassador Sandalli return for security reasons – Di Maio then quashed the controversy – otherwise we would not have left Consul Claudi either. Here at the Farnesina we have the crisis unit and the ambassador needed all the equipment needed to manage it. Sandalli had asked me to stay in Kabul. I told him: ‘If you have to manage the evacuation of thousands of Afghans you have to have the intelligence database, you can’t do it from Kabul airport with a smartphone ‘”.
“I have seen so many controversies aboutItaly running away – added the minister -. Ambassador Sandalli does not deserve this controversy. From here, from the crisis unit, he managed the wider evacuation of Afghans from the European Union“.
A challenge, that of hospitality, also taken up by Bonaccini: “After the first hundred Afghans welcomed in Piacentino and Parma and the other hundred in Modenese, we await others. I will ask Minister Luciana Lamorgese to come to the State-Regions conference because we need to have a overall picture. I hope that everyone will be willing to receive a sacrosanct welcome. There is talk of giving rights and a future to those who risk their lives. We will do whatever it takes, ”the governor explained.
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He green pass
The minister then moved on to talk about the green pass, which will be mandatory from Wednesday 1st September also for transport and long distance. “Either we have the Green pass and therefore a high level of vaccination, or we have to close businesses, close the shops. There is no middle ground “, the minister later underlined.” I see that there is a lot of controversy: to which activities we are applying the Green pass, to whom to extend it. On this I rely on scientific community, to the experts. But it must be clear, without the green pass we would have had to close commercial and economic activities and this would have impacted on the growth and development of the country “.
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