President Sergio Mattarella said
Monday that the war Russia started with its invasion of Ukraine
should not lead to the severing of cultural ties between
European peoples.
"A senseless war cannot throw into doubt the spiritual and
cultural bonds that have been strongly woven in the world of
Europe's culture over the centuries," Mattarella said during a
meeting with the candidates for this year's David di Donatello
Italian cinema awards.
"The Russian Federation's deplorable decision to use the
brutality of violence and war cannot, and must not, sever those
precious ties between European peoples that culture contributed
to building and consolidating.
"Duty-bound indignation and condemnation certainly cannot regard
culture, great spirits of the past and their works, which have
given a great deal to the civilization of the whole world.
"It would be counterproductive for our Italy and our Europe.
Lacerating European culture would amount to supporting the logic
of aggression."
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