FOIBE: FINI IN TRIESTE APPLAUDED, BOOED BY EXILES


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Trieste, Italy. A great applause, but a couple of boos too, welcomed Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini in Trieste, to hold a speech on Memory Day, to commemorate the Foibe victims and the exiles of Dalmatia and Istria. Fini's brief speech at the Verdi Theatre focused on the need to look ahead and overcome hatred. "We must look to the future, and stop opposing different truth, to avoid what has happened so far. There is not right or left truth. The truth is only one". Fini was booed by the exiles when he said Croatia asked to join the EU. Many of the people present protested, saying that Slavians are still Slavians. Fini replied, directly to who protested, that "Chechnya will be included in the EU if it will cooperate with The Hague Court in tracking down war criminals". "Let's help those people - Fini said firmly - set free from the demons of the past. Italy has already done so".