Today a year has passed since our Navy Fusiliers were ordered to return to India and they were taken back to Delhi delegating to India the right to exercise undue prosecution against them.
12 months have passed without anything happening, leaving Delhi to manage the affair with an approach characterized by the best traditions of oriental cunning. Next Wednesday, after the umpteenth mission to India with up to now modest results, the government commissioner dr. de Mistura, will return to Italy and report to the foreign and defense committees of the chamber and senate.
What he will report is hard to predict, it is certain that he will not be spared in reconfirming his will and his commitment to bring home the two marò with a series of statements of intent that we are now used to listening to boredom. We should hardly expect it to report, instead, objective results.
We expect him to at least report his analysis of why Oommen Candy, ?? Chief Minister ?? of the state of Kerala, wrote to Singh, yesterday asking the central government in Delhi not to release the two maros "even if the United Nations intervenes".
A formal position was taken by Candy, in conjunction with the visit to New Delhi by the president of the UN General Assembly John Ashe and after Minister Alfano, shortly before meeting Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, expressed peremptory phrases such as "i marò must be released immediately ". And on this "the UN must take a clear and strong position".
An appeal due in the concepts, but which perhaps had to be adapted in terms of tones in respect of the traditions of the UN where it would certainly have been better accepted if proposed with a ?? should ??.
On the other hand, a peremptory reference was made by Mr Alfano who does not seem to have had great effects, in the same way as the 'Machiavellian' techniques? applied until now by Dr. de Mistura.
In fact Ashe went to India, he met with the government leaders, but he is denied that he faced the marò problem in the talks as perhaps he would ?? do according to the honorable Alfano ?? after his interventions at the glass building.
Ashe met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid and little was known about the topics covered. Surely, however, there has been no mention of the two Navy Riflemen as reported by the local ANSA that has collected a very brief response from the government spokesman Syed Akbaruddin according to which, however, Ashe "has not treated" with Khurshid the question of the Italian military blocked for two years without trial. Ashe himself asked a specific question: "I am president of the general assembly The general assembly deals with multilateral issues".
Alfano's optimism did not take into account the expertise of the veteran diplomat of Antigua and Barbuda and the words of the Italian minister remained so perhaps also for a simplistic preventive preparation of the context in which the meetings between Alfano would take place and the highest leadership of the united nations.
It would be interesting in this regard to understand from the report of dr. de Mistura, present in those days in Delhi, the reason why the Italian minister's appeal was not followed up and also to report on the alarming attitude that the communists of Kerala appear to have taken with regard to Italy.
ANSA, in fact, today tells us that the Kerala Communists are using as a priority theme of the electoral battle in Kerala the case of the two marines held in India ahead of the April 10 elections in which the Federal State will vote for national elections.
The Keralan Communist Party, which is in opposition, reproaches the Congress party (in power in the southern state) of "inability" to manage the affair and of "bowing" to the demands of Italy. "After initially deciding to apply your anti-piracy law - said a senior official of the Marxist Communist Party (CPM), MA Baby, to a newspaper - the Ministry of the Interior has backed down". He then criticized the Congress party and in particular its leader Sonia Gandhi for "this about-face" and "not being able to guarantee the safety of fishermen".
I believe that an analysis on this particular aspect, moreover matured on the spot by Dr de Mistura, should represent the crux of his report to the Commissions, as a fundamental element for identifying a line of future action based on facts rather than on words and at least offer some guarantee of success, unlike what has happened until now and continues to happen.
A minister of the republic who tells us from overseas that he has been credible and convincing with the leaders of the United Nations and then immediately disavowed by the facts, a representative of the government that for months promises firm and decisive counter-measures against India but nobody can understand what they are.
Meanwhile, time passes inexorably. Today is a year since our soldiers were returned to India with a decision that should find no confirmation in any step of our criminal and constitutional legal order.
A determination that could instead be motivated by the protection of partisan interests that on 22 March 2013 led to ?? sell for thirty denari ?? Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone and who still today advise to ?? take time ?? rather than launching the planned international initiatives, first of all arbitration.
Unclear aspects of the story that should lead to the establishment of a committee of parliamentary inquiry that ascertains whether a year ago was decided well in the total interest of the two Italian soldiers, assuring them the rights that should be guaranteed a rule of law.
Fernando Termentini
