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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.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
2.
The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
3.
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.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
4.
The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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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.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi