Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.

The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.

The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.