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The importance of Mattarella and Pahor's visit to the Basovizza Foiba
The National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, in analogy with what was expressed by the Mayor of Trieste Roberto Dipiazza and the President of the Region Massimiliano Fedriga, has grasped the great importance of the visit that the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella will make together with his Slovenian counterpart in Basovizza. The other stops of the day have given rise to controversy in Trieste and in Parliament, but even beyond the border the decision of President Borut Pahor to go to the National Monument of the Foiba of Basovizza has not been free from criticism. And yet, ten years after the Concert of the Three Presidents (held at the end of a day in which it was made...
Exiles await Pahor's visit to the Basovizza Foiba
Despite the news filtered out from Ljubljana, which does not yet officially confirm the visit of the President of the Republic of Slovenia Borut Pahor together with the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella to the National Monument of the Foiba of Basovizza, the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and the other acronyms of the Adriatic diaspora strongly hope that this significant ceremony will take place. "As soon as the news began to circulate - explains Renzo Codarin, national president of the ANVGD - many of our provincial committees and other associations of exiles have already intended to send their own representation to what is expected...
Slovenian President to Visit Basovizza Foiba
Slovenian President Borut Pahor will visit the Basovizza Foiba National Monument with Italian President Sergio Matarella on July 13. This news was welcomed with great satisfaction by Renzo Codarin, President of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia: "The visit of the two presidents to the Basovizza Foiba on the same day as the centenary of the Hotel Balkan fire," Codarin stated, "represents, through two highly symbolic places, mutual recognition of the suffering that has affected the eastern Adriatic lands in...
Mattarella's thanks to Coordinamento Adriatico
On the occasion of the 2020 Remembrance Day Concert, held on Sunday 9 February at the Cappella Paolina del Quirinale, Prof. Giuseppe de Vergottini (President of Coordinamento Adriatico APS) and Prof. Davide Rossi were part of the delegation of representatives of the Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exile associations who met the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella. On this occasion, the two representatives of Coordinamento Adriatico donated to the Head of State the three volumes that make up the latest work created by CA Il Territorio Adriatico. Orizzonte storico, geografia del paesaggio, aspetti economiche, giuridici e artistica,...
Foibe and Exodus national disaster
Remembrance Day: Foibe and Exodus a "National Disaster." No to Denialism. Rome, February 9, 2020 - President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella issued the following statement: "The 'Day of Remembrance,' established by a large majority of Parliament in 2004, helps us relive a tragic chapter in our recent history, ignored, erased, or even denied for many years: the terrible suffering that the Italians of Istria, Dalmatia, and Venezia Giulia were forced to endure under the occupation of the Yugoslav Communists. These lands, along with their inhabitants, at the end of the Second World War, suffered the sad and harsh fate...
Exodus and Foibe, the position of the Italian State was traced by Mattarella
Codarin (ANVGD): “Mattarella has well defined the synthesis and perspective of a path built over the years by the Julian Dalmatian associations thanks to Lucio Toth and enlightened exponents of various political and cultural extractions”. The position of the Italian State regarding the attempts to justify or deny the Foibe massacres has already been authoritatively stated by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella during the recent celebration at the Quirinale of the Day of Remembrance. In fact, on that occasion, President Mattarella, firmly condemning any attempt at historical revisionism, clearly highlighted the criminal matrix...
Toni Capuozzo: “The Quirinale should make an exiled Senator for life”
by Giannino della Frattina - 24/02/2019 Source: Il Giornale Appointing an Istrian exile as senator for life, a victim of the ethnic purge ordered by communist hatred and the ferocity of Marshal Tito. It has already been done for the survivor of another genocide like Liliana Segre, who escaped the Nazi concentration camps, it is not clear why it should not be done for the martyrs of the other ruthless dictatorship that has devastated not only the last century, but that still today tortures and kills its opponents. The lucid mind of an extraordinary journalist and a great war correspondent like Toni Capuozzo proposed it during the conference on foibe and Fiume exiles,...
A turning point of Remembrance in Italy
The Day of Remembrance 2019 is a fundamental step in the reconstruction of the historical truth regarding the most tragic pages of history of the eastern Italian border. First of all because the words pronounced by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella during the institutional ceremony held at the Quirinale on February 9 condemned without appeal the justificationists and deniers. In front of 300 exiles and representatives of the Adriatic diaspora associations and live on television, the Head of State captured the peculiar aspects of our history and was able to present them to all Italians in a heartfelt and convincing manner, without reticence and...
Speech by President Mattarella for the Day of Remembrance
On Saturday 9 February, the institutional ceremony of the Day of Remembrance took place at the Quirinale, during which the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella also spoke, whose speech we report below. Welcome to the Quirinale. I extend greetings to the President of the Chamber of Deputies, the President of the Council of Ministers, the President of the Constitutional Court and the Vice President of the Senate. Thanks to all who spoke, contributing effectively to illustrating, reliving and understanding the meaning of this Day of Remembrance. Celebrating the Day of Remembrance means reliving a great Italian tragedy, experienced...
Statement by President Mattarella on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance
The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, issued the following statement: "The Day of Remembrance was established by Parliament to commemorate a distressing moment in our country's twentieth century. A tragedy caused by a planned ethnic and nationalistic purge. The foibe, with their burden of death, unspeakable cruelty, and unjustifiable violence, are the tragic symbol of a chapter of history, still little known and sometimes even misunderstood, which recounts the great suffering of the people of Istria, Fiume, Dalmatia, and the Julian Alps. To the harsh Nazi-Fascist occupation...
