NEWS Flags flown at half-mast at NATO headquarters on an Italian proposal

By Pagine Ebraiche staff*

All NATO member states’ flags flew at half-mast on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27. This solemn and unprecedented initiative for NATO headquarters was carried out by impulse of the Italian Permanent Representation led by Ambassador Francesco Maria Talò.

“We continue doing what is a moral duty and is dictated by law since 2000, namely preserving Remembrance. This initiative represents something new for NATO,” Talò said.

“When I was consul in New York, I inaugurated the Reading of the Names Ceremony during the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and I have continued my commitment also as ambassador in Israel,” the ambassador added in an interview with the website formiche.net.

Talò stated that having a strong awareness of these topics is “a duty as well as also a source of pride.”

*Translated by Mattia Stefani and revised by Claudia Azzalini, both students at the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreting and Translation of Trieste University and interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.