The institutional silence surrounds the story of the two marines that is now dragged by 1000 days and two weeks spent by our two military men in Delhi, a hostage of India.1000 days in which there have been three governments, three foreign and defense ministers that they have so much promised but little realized.
Almost three years without anything happening to resolve the affair during which, in the meantime, former ministers of the Monti government have consolidated their future. Institutional representatives who presumably due to their role at the time of the events had a decisive weight in the decisions that led to the return of Latorre and Girone to India on 22 March 2013.
According to press reports, the former defense minister Di Paola moves to the United States, to Irvine, California, and from January 1, 2015 will be engaged as executive vice president, with global responsibility, in a private bank that finances projects in countries. developing, the EurOrientfinancial group recognized by the UN. The former minister of economic development, instead, dr. Passera, overlooking the Italian political scene leader of a new political movement.
Nothing, however, has matured to bring the two soldiers back to their homeland, after the diplomatic victories of the former minister Terzi who had twice succeeded in obtaining from India that the two navy riflemen returned to Italy.
An action that offered a glimmer why the two remained in Italy, perhaps following a ban on expatriation sanctioned by the Italian judiciary that investigated them for the crime of voluntary homicide. Acts that perhaps would have been well accepted by an India concerned not to undermine diplomatic relations with Italy and at the same time not to disappoint the Indian population, particularly that of the extreme left of Kerala.
On the contrary, the situation was different for the two soldiers to whom 22 March had been assured that they would return to Italy after two or three weeks, but forgot to tell them what year.
One, Massimiliano Latorre, suffering from a serious physical problem, is convalescing in Italy and is expected to return to India on 13 January 2015. The other Salvatore Girone remained hostage by India in custody at the Italian embassy in Delhi.
Suddenly the new foreign minister, Gentiloni, makes his voice heard through news agencies and during an interview given to a public television news program and informs us that Italy "intends to give a significant change of pace" and specifies between another, according to an article published by Corriere.it that Italy, while not abandoning the path of international arbitration, believes that the solution of the mess can only come from bilateral negotiations and out of the spotlight. (http://www.corriere.it/opinioni/14_novembre_22/maro-due-sentenze-un-vero...)
All softened by the optimism of Prime Minister Renzi who is convinced of getting Modi's goodwill by exchanging two words with him during the G20 in Australia. An Indian prime minister who a few days earlier had publicly stated his conviction that India should apply international law and conventions in cases of maritime piracy.
An invitation, that of Modi, that Italy seems, however, not to accept in the moment that at the institutional level we continue to prefer the policy of compromise rather than to assert their rights in an international context specifically designed to express themselves on the controversies between States.
Nothing has changed under the sun some would say. We continue to seek a "friendly" solution according to the best Italian tradition of "let's love each other", a political line also confirmed by the statements of the president of the Foreign and Community Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, Mr Cicchitto who recently wished: "... i two marines Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone can also count on the solidarity of Europe and the international community for a rapid and definitive resolution of their affair "(ANSA 6 November).
Fernando Termentini
