prompt the Calabria Region the government to accelerate the iter for the institution of the ZES in the port of Gioia Tauro



If the Italian government has established that the transfer of the Syrian chemical weapons from the ships Danish and Norwegian in departure from Syria to ship MV Ray Chief of Marina Militare the USA will happen between the end of January and the beginning of February in the calabrian port of Gioia Tauro, where - it has assured the holder of the Farnesina, Emma Bonino - "not will be neither storage neither passage to earth if they do not give dock to dock", from part its Calabria Region attends from the government decisions above all in order to accelerate the institution of Special Economic Zone (ZES) to Gioia Tauro. "The classified attention in these days towards the port of Gioia Tauro - it has found the vice president of the Region, Antonella Stasi - must sure be accompanied from concrete measures. So as same president Scopelliti has restated it, a sign of attention by the national government is necessary. From months the committee and then the regional council unanimously has approved of the birth of the ZES, Special the Economic Zone in the port of Gioia Tauro, promuovendo in confronts of the national government a bill in parliament. This important provision - Antonella Stasi has denounced - is firm in the several parliamentary commissions. If the gioiese port of call is defined by all only and strategic for its characteristics, the approval of the ZES would be a way in order to demonstrate to the territory that the national government and Europe not only consider the calabrian port as area of dangerous storage of goods but, above all, as European strategic infrastructure and flies of development of the national economy".

"They are these - it has continued the vice president of the Calabria Region - the concrete answers that we attend from the national executive. President Scopelliti on this specific provision - he has remembered - has written recently a missive to the Read prime Minister and own some day makes the Ministry of the European Transactions has given the availability to open a table, availability that must be translate operatingly".

"Safety of the territories - it has concluded Antonella Stasi - comes before every other thing and no action will be realized in Calabria if a minimal risk for the citizens and the workers of the port had to be assumed. But today, more than before as regional government, we are determined to go ahead on the institution of the ZES, a lot more in these days after the government has screaied to the entire world the value and the importance of this port. Now the Read prime Minister will have to demonstrate it with the facts".

Also the labor organizations Cisl and Fit Cisl consider that the choice of the port of Gioia Tauro operated from the Italian government for the transfer of the Syrian chemical weapons goes faced, estimated and valued with the objective to support the strategicità of the calabrian harbour infrastructure in a wider and efficient "system of the transports and the logistics integrated" in national within, European and international. "In greeting positively the announced convocation of our representatives of the local institutions, of the regional government, the Harbour Authority and all the involved subjects - they have explained the general secretary of Cisl Calabria, Paolo Tramonti, and the general secretary of the Fit Cisl Calabria, Annibale Fiorenza - wishes that the same ones succeed to value this opportunity of confronts in order to return a more adequate attention of the same national government and the European Parliament operating, on the perspectives of increase and development not only of the hub harbour but of the entire area harbour back that, as many times over claimed, goes rightfully inserted inthe "National Plan of the integrated Logistics" recognizing to same the prerogatives of being classified "Special Economic Zone"".