President Sergio Mattarella told
Chinese television CGTN that the future requires many people
like 13th century Venetian explorer Marco Polo instead of those
preaching contrast and practicing war.
"The future requires many Marco Polo, in alternative to those
who are instead preaching contrast and practicing war",
Mattarella told the program "Leaders Talk", interviewed by He
Yanke.
"Because the Marco Polo style, the meaning, is that of curiosity
for worlds we don't know, admiration for what we see and learn,
it is reciprocal respect for a common cultural enrichment.
"This is what has made the world grow over millenniums and
centuries", the president said.
"And it represents what is instead opposed by those fuelling
contrast and fostering incompatibility", noted the president,
stressing a growing need in the world to "recuperate that spirit
in which to meet, dialogue, learn from one another", which is
the way forward "to grow together".
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