'Some preaching contrast against dialogue' - Mattarella

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 10 - 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". (ANSA).