We do not abandon active neutrality
During the council session on Tuesday 24 May the Great and General Council approved, with the sole abstention of Councilor Grazia Zafferani, an agenda that reiterates the condemnation of Russia for the invasion of Ukraine, reconfirms the stance of St. Marino regarding the sanctions adopted by most of the countries of the Atlantic bloc and gives the government a mandate to take diplomatic paths to resolve the conflict. In fact, breaking the millenary custom of active neutrality, because sanctions are considered hostile acts, all the more so after Russia has provided the San Marino citizens with the Sputnik vaccine. In reaffirming our condemnation of all military action and reiterating our closeness and solidarity with the civilian population of Ukraine, the main victim of the conflict; this always appears to us as a clash between different economic, social and democratic models, rather than a conquest of territories. The democratic delay of Putin’s Russia is undeniable, but the sanctions for Crimea and the DonBass of the big countries have been in force since 2014 and have certainly not brought the desired results. DEMOS believes that there may be an alternative to the indistinct alignment with the Atlanticist bloc: The Republic could have taken all possible diplomatic paths to act as the main actor in the process of negotiating pace between the parties. The abstention signed by the Grazia Zaffer Council in the vote on the ODG by the majority and opposition forces, at the end of the discussion on the war, represents an act of full and consistent responsibility of our representative. We believe that precisely in its secular active neutrality the Republic of San Marino has found the key to survival and resistance. A neutrality based on dialogue, on agreement, on the search for harmony that has allowed, despite the undeniable geopolitical dependence on Italy, statutory independence and interconnection with all states. We consider it necessary on the causes that generate conflicts, to prevent them where possible and to try to heal them with the art of mediation, when they are unleashed, to remove all those obstacles, including economic ones, which are at the basis of the use of force. This is why we believe that today San Marino foreign policy must try and dare more in terms of diplomacy. It is pale that it may be the role of our little Republic not to be at the fore in the peace talks, but it can be used easily for the process by leveraging our millenary history as well. We must be aware that a future war will not be fought in conventional trenches and battlefields, but globalization has already opened up other scenarios, from drones to cyber attacks, to the induced creation of famines, to the blocking of energy supplies and raw materials. , up to the nuclear threat. And all this knows no bounds.
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