towards strengthening collaborations
“The size of the countries does not matter but the size of their respective populations”, with these words Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the House of Commons, one of the branches of the British Parliament, he wanted to express to the Captains Regent Francesco Mussoni and Giacomo Simoncini their esteem and admiration for the Republic, its history, its institutions. “Your country – he added – is a commendable example of democracy and together we must work to foster the pace “. A vocation for dialogue and confrontation, that of the Titan, repeatedly emphasized during the official visit to London of Their Excellencies, an even more distinctive trait in the current difficult moment on an international level.
San Marino and the United Kingdom linked by common values but also from mutual propensity to collaborate even more effectively by entering into agreements of an economic and financial naturesuch as the protection of investments and against double taxation, with the invited consent of the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. To this are added important collaborations for the affirmation of the deepest democratic principles.
Topics on the table of talks also with the former British Foreign Minister, Jeremy Hunt, pleased to pay homage to the Regency and the Government delegation a few months after his recent visit to the Titan. Introduced by the President of the San Marino Interparliamentary Friendship Group with the United Kingdom, Andrea Rosindell, the Heads of State then met with the President of the Foreign Affairs Commission Tom Tugendhat“Who reaffirmed the desire to intensify cooperation with San Marino precisely on the basis of shared principles and values, which in this historical phase are of even greater importance”.
A Buckingham Palace finally one of the most significant acts of the visit: the conferment to the Queen Elizabeth II of the Grand Collar of the Equestrian Order of San Marino, already assigned on February 20, 1937 to his father, His Majesty George VI.
At the end, the Ambassador of Italy to the United Kingdom, Raffaele Trombettainformed of the presence in London of the Regency, he wanted to bring his personal greeting and that of the Italian Republic.
The London visit of the Heads of State ended at the headquarters ofIMO, the International Maritime Organizationthe United Nations agency of which San Marino has been a member for 20 years, meeting the Secretary General, Kitack Limto which the Ambassador of San Marino to the United Kingdom, Silvia Marchetti awarded the honor of Knight of the Equestrian Order of Sant’Agata conferred by the Most Excellent Captains Regent. Present the Ambassador of San Marino to the IMO, Giampaolo Bensaia.