ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “Today the UN continues to be the fundamental frame of reference to face challenges that transgress national borders: the promotion of a shared agenda for the preservation of our planet, the challenges posed by artificial intelligence, the protection of global health, just to name a few: organized crime falls within this category of challenges that require a constant and coordinated international response. In this long journey there is no shortage of obstacles, errors and gaps, partly due to the structural deficiencies of the Organization, partly to the swinging political will of the Member States themselves to fully support their action.” Thus the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, in his speech in Vienna to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention against transnational organized crime.
“The recent UN80 reform launched by Secretary-General Guterres – he added – was launched to provide response to this demand for greater effectiveness. It is a step in the right direction that, however, calls for a broader reflection on the same decision-making mechanisms of the UN, beginning with the Security Council, whose composition – and whose powers under the permanent members – reflect the world of 1945. The UN can fulfil its mandate as a guarantee of international peace only if the States which are part of it allow them to do so. And, however, the United Nations remains an extraordinary and irreplaceable instrument of peace and stability, which would be irresponsible to weaken.”.
“The geo-political framework that we have faced, from the continuing Russian aggression war to Ukraine, to the crisis in the Middle East, to the instability in different areas of the African continent, often associated with dramatic humanitarian crises, requires with all evidence an active support of the UN, certainly not its dismantling. I am thinking, for example, of the need to strengthen – and not demolish – the architecture related to disarmament and the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, in a historical phase in which, instead, we witness unacceptable allusions to the use of weapons of mass destruction. There are no alternatives to multilateralism, unless we consider taking the path of permanent conflicts, with a return to a primitive vision of relations between peoples, whose outcomes are historically and dramatically well known.”.
“CRIMINE ORGANIZZATO PUÒ ESSERE VINTO CON LARGO CONCORSO DI FORZE”
“The organized crime can be won as long as the institutions and various joints of society are recognized in the shared duties of civic responsibility. It is true in national contexts and is true at the supranational level. Moreover, how could you think or expect to fight differently and successfully transnational criminal activities? Giovanni Falcone had understood the importance of international cooperation as an instrument to counter organised crime: from illegal trafficking to the handling of crime proceeds for their reuse and recycling.” So again the President of the Republic.
“Today, here in Vienna, we solemnly renew our commitment to organized crime. It is a common moral responsibility that belongs to the international community as a whole, and must unite it. The Convention of Palermo, with its Additional Protocols, stems from the awareness that the phenomenon of transnational crime, like all other global challenges, can only be faced with a wide competition of forces”, he added. “From here comes its persistent topicality, 25 years after its signature. The truth that inspires us severely, in the face of the results that he has been able to concretely promote with reference to that moral tension, to that feeling of duty, to that determination that Giovanni Falcone would lead to the same dignity of the person”. has concluded.
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