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the Italian government will not indent in India the two marò accused to have murdered two fishermen
a note of the precise Farnesina that the decision is assumed "being the formal foundation of an international controversy between the two States"
March 11, 2013
Today the minister of Foreign countries, Giulio Terzi, has communicated the unexpected decision of the Italian government not to indent in India the two riflemen of withheld the San Marco Regiment of Marina Militare Italiana from last February in the Asian nation with the accusation having victim of a murder, while they were on board of the Enrica Lexie oil tanker, two fishermen exchanging them for pirates.
A note of the Farnesina communicates that, "on instructions of the minister of Giulio Terzi Foreign countries, the ambassador of Italy to New Delhi Daniele Mancini has delivered today to the Indian authorities a oral note with which the Italian government, in relation to the case of the riflemen of Marina Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, has announced to the Indian government how much follows: "Italy has always considered that the conduct of the Indian authorities violated the obligations by right international weighing on India by virtue of the customary right and pattizio, in particular the principle of the immunity from the jurisdiction of the organs of the foreign State and the rules of the Convention of the United Nations on the Right of Sea (UNCLOS) of 1982. The next day of the sentence on January 18, 2013 of the Supreme Court Indiana, Italy has formally proposed to the government of New Delhi the start of a bilateral dialogue for research purposes of a diplomatic solution of the case, as suggested from the same Court, here where it recalled the hypothesis of a cooperation between States in the fight to piracy, second how much previews cited Convention UNCLOS. To light of the lacked answer India to the Italian demand to activate such forms of cooperation - the note explains - the Italian government considers that a controversy with India having to object sussista the contained rules in the foretold the general Convention and principles international by right applicable to the event. For these reasons, Italy has restated formally to the Indian government, with the delivered oral note today from ambassador Mancini, own availability to reach to an agreement for a solution of the controversy, also through arbitrateed international or a judicial resolution, asking India to activate the consultations previewed from Convention UNCLOS. With the occasion, Italy has informed the Indian government who, being the formal foundation of an international controversy between the two States, the riflemen of Marina Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone will not make upon maturity re-enter in India of the permission they granted. The decision, that it is notified also to the Indiana embassy to Rome and on which are previewed contacts between the two ministers of Foreign countries, is assumed of understanding with the Justice and Defense Ministries and coordination with the Prime Minister's Office"".
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