I'm proud to be able to call myself a European citizen, born in Italy.

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.

The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.

The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.

The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.