Mourning in San Marino for the death of Ambassador Maiani • newsrimini.it
Mauro Maiani died at the age of 64, Commissioner General of San Marino toExpo 2020, and Ambassador of the Titan to the United Arab Emirates and in Portugal. His body was found lifeless yesterday in his apartment at Expo Village in Dubai where he supervised the San Marino Pavilion at the Universal Exposition. It is probable that a sudden illness caused his death.
Today and tomorrow the doors of the Pavilion will remain closed as a sign of mourning and the flag of the Republic of San Marino at the main entrance of Expo 2020 Dubai will be hoisted at half mast. The body of Commissioner Maiani will return to San Marino tomorrow. Letizia Cardelli, Director of the San Marino Pavilion remembers him as “a great man who dedicated his life to this project. We met with the Secretariat of State and the staff of the Commissariat with whom we agreed to continue
convincingly in the project. The staff and volunteers of the Pavilion are doing well, we remain united“.
Among the testimonies of condolence arrived in these hours that of the Italian Commissioner Paolo Glisenti and Deputy Commissioner Marcello Fondi who in a note join the pain of San Marino: “Mauro Maiani was a good Commissioner General in the many Expo in which he participated, but above all a friend of Italy, a travel companion also here at Expo 2020 Dubai, where Italy and San Marino signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 1 October last. and Collaboration. This is how the Expo family will remember him, for his professionalism and his humanity“.