From San Marino information (by Marino Cecchetti) – “On the 30th anniversary of the death of Federico Bigi (1996)the public memorySan Marino is called to pay homage to one of the most authoritative and significant figures in the political and institutional history of the twentieth centuryThis is the incipit of a communicated released on Thursday by the San Marino Christian Democratic Party. In the foreground his “political stature” highlighted “in the seriousness of the method, in the balance of judgment, in the institutional competence” and – we add – in the results.
“Us” – Bigi had said on 10 December 1960 in the Great and General Council – we do not intend “safeguard our freedom, sovereignty and independence only in a historical and symbolic way“, but “with all our strength and in the most concrete way possible”. And that’s what he didwinning overestablishment Roman who would have liked to continue to consider San Marino a municipality, albeit one with great autonomy. Bigi, however, manages to have it recognized as a state.
. Which did not happen for example for Trentino-Alto Adige.Bigi, having recovered a relationship of trust with Italy (where the governments were almost always Christian Democrat-led), on 10 September 1971 signed an agreement in Rome with Aldo Moro, Italian Foreign Minister, which effectively recognized San Marino as a state of full sovereignty. The first to compliment Bigi on the spot was Moro himself: “She has worked and continues to work with intelligence and tenacity, reaping well-deserved fruits that go far beyond the dimensions of the Republic of San Marino.
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Even small states can produce great men. When this happens, even the small state becomes large.
Marino Cecchetti See M. Cecchetti, SAN MARINO,
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San Marino, 2022.(Article published in full the following day)
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