30 Years of Autonomy for South Tyrol: Foreign Minister Schallenberg and Italy’s Foreign Minister Di Maio Celebrate Anniversary in Bolzano
AUSTRIA, June 10 - On 11 June 2022, Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg participated in festivities in Bolzano marking the 30th anniversary of Austria and Italy’s agreement on the statute of autonomy for South Tyrol. The 1992 declaration officially resolved the dispute before the United Nations regarding implementation of the Paris Agreement. In addition to a meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, his participation in the ceremony organised by South Tyrolean President Arno Kompatscher represented the high point of Alexander Schallenberg’s working visit to South Tyrol.
At the beginning of the anniversary event, the two foreign ministers of Austria and Italy gave a press conference with the Governor of South Tyrol and the UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Fernand de Varennes. The joint media event was intended to highlight the special importance of South Tyrolean independence for Austria, Italy, and the United Nations.
South Tyrolean autonomy, with its guarantee of the rights of the German-speaking minority, is a European role model for peaceful coexistence in Europe and worldwide, and we can all be rightly proud of it,
said Foreign Minister Schallenberg.
In the subsequent conversation with his Italian counterpart, the foreign minister highlighted their common duty to further protect and promote these accomplishments in South Tyrol. Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg also clearly indicated his support for the necessary further development of South Tyrolean autonomy.
In the future, we will continue to exercise our protective function and work to ensure that the statute of autonomy can further develop and flourish. We all share the responsibility for that,
said Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg.
Given the global shift caused by the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, he called into memory the long path and the tools that ultimately led to the resolution of the South Tyrolean issue. In this sense, having the United Nations take up the matter in the 1960s proved to be an “effective and productive method”. This clearly shows, he said, that it is worthwhile to resolve differences of opinion between neighbouring states by peaceful means, as laid out in the United Nations Charter.
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