New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday told his Italian counterpart Mario Monti that a view on specific aspects of the case involving two marines facing murder charges in the country cannot be taken pending investigations. However, Singh, who received a call from Monti, recalled the clarification given by the Ministry of External Affairs to Italy prior to the return of the marines to India last month.
The telephone call by Italian Prime Minister came amid concerns in Italy over the slapping of murder charges against the marines which entails death penalty. "Prime Minister Singh received a telephone call this evening from Italian Prime Minister. During the course of the call, the issue of Italian marines in India was discussed," official sources said.
The sources said Prime Minister Singh appreciated the Italian government's decision to send the marines back to India in line with the commitments that had been made before the Indian Supreme Court and in order to enable the judicial process to move forward. Singh also recalled the recent conversation between the External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and the Deputy Foreign Minister of Italy, Staffan de Mistura and mentioned that the process of setting up a special court is at a fairly advanced stage and the Attorney General would provide further details in this regard during the next hearing in the Supreme Court on April 16....
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09:18 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: After the National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a case against two Italian marines on Thursday for the murder of two Indian fishermen off the Kerala coast last year, Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti on Friday called up External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid to discuss the case. Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Staffan de Mistura also met Khurshid on Thursday to discuss developments in the case following the lifting of...
04:31 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday declined to comment on the case of two Italian marines and the issue of delays in setting up a special court to try them on charges of killing two fishermen off the Kerala coast. ...
11:31 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Outlining the reasons for sending back to India the two marines accused of killing Indian fishermen, Italy's outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti said Rome a faced serious risk of being isolated internationally and could have opened a crisis of "serious proportions" with New Delhi. Monti also said that his Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi had resigned with motives not just limited to the marines issue. ...
06:15 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Italy's Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi had resigned over the government's decision to return the two marines to India to stand trial for killing two Kerala fishermen. Reacting to the resignation, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said, "The Foreign Minister resigned without discussing with the government. Italy had to protect its honour and dignity. It was not right to arrest the marines in India. But there was no secret agreement made...
08:58 AM, Mar 28, 2013
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to examine the AgustaWestland chopper deal after a PIL that a special investigation team should be set up to probe the Rs 4000-crore VVIP helicopter deal. ...
01:11 PM, Mar 01, 2013
A center-left group of parties appears to have the best shot at forming a coalition government in Italy after an inconclusive national election, but the challenge is steep and comes amid public anger over austerity measures. If Italian parties fail to form a governing coalition, new elections would be required, causing more uncertainty and a leadership vacuum, and that possibility has rattled financial markets across Europe. ...
11:50 AM, Feb 27, 2013
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday indicated he was open to an alliance between his center-right coalition and the center-left group that won most seats in Italy's parliamentary election. ...
03:25 PM, Feb 26, 2013
Italians finish voting in one of the most closely watched and unpredictable elections in years on Monday with a surge in protest votes fuelling concern that the ballot may not produce a government strong enough to pull Italy from its economic slump. ...
10:32 AM, Feb 25, 2013
Will Italy stay the course with painful economic reform? Or fall back into the old habit of profligacy and inertia? These are the stakes as Italy votes in a watershed parliamentary election Sunday and Monday that could shape the future of one of Europe's biggest economies. ...
01:07 PM, Feb 24, 2013
In the wake of corruption allegations against Finmeccanica, an Italian lawmaker has reportedly asked Prime Minister Mario Monti to reveal the names of journalists and media workers on the payroll of former CEO of the defence firm Giuseppe Orsi. Senator Raffaele Lauro, a member of the Italian Finance Committee, asked Monti to "eradicate the rot" of alleged collusion between world of information and top management of companies, according to Italian...
10:15 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has said that his government would guarantee the "correct governance" of state-controlled defence firm Finmeccanica following arrest of its chief executive on corruption charges in the Rs 3,600 crore VVIP helicopter deal with India. ...
11:50 AM, Feb 15, 2013
There is a political war of words in Italy. Taking a jibe at Finnmeccanica, former premier Silvio Berlusconi said that bribes are necessary for business. But facing the heat, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has assured to get to the bottom of the deal. ...
11:32 AM, Feb 15, 2013
Italian police arrested the head of Italian state-controlled defence group Finmeccanica SpA on February 12 in a corruption probe centred on the sale of helicopters to the Indian government, a judicial source said. Finmeccanica Chief Executive and Chairman Giuseppe Orsi was arrested for alleged bribes paid to secure the sale of 12 AgustaWestland executive aircraft when he was head of the Finmeccanica helicopter unit, the source said. ...
03:20 PM, Feb 12, 2013
Italian caretaker Prime Minister Mario Monti indicated in a newspaper interview published on Sunday that he would probably not stand in a February election but would try to convince the winner to complete the reforms his government has begun. Monti, who is expected to end weeks of speculation about his political future told La Repubblica daily he would use it to present a list of reforms that the next government...
06:55 PM, Dec 23, 2012
Brussels: Italy said on Tuesday it may want to tap eurozone aid to ease its borrowing costs as finance ministers struggled to convince markets they are getting a grip on the bloc's debt crisis, which a top European Central Banker said could escalate. Prime Minister Mario Monti, who is under intense market pressure to shape up his economy and avoid being drawn into the centre of the debt crisis, said...
03:16 AM, Jul 11, 2012
Brussels: Under pressure to prevent a catastrophic breakup of their single currency, Eurozone leaders agreed on Friday to let their rescue fund inject aid directly into stricken banks from next year and intervene on bond markets to support troubled member states. They also pledged to create a single banking supervisor for Eurozone banks based around the European Central Bank in a landmark first step towards a European banking union that...
08:54 AM, Jun 30, 2012
Rome: Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has expressed "great satisfaction" over the release on bail of two Italian marines charged with the killing of two Indian fishermen, but said the final objective of his government is to ensure their return to the country. "I express my own and the government's great satisfaction for the liberation, under bail conditions, of our marines. An important objective has been reached," Monti said in...
04:01 AM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Italian government increased the pressure on India after the Kollam Sessions court on Saturday rejected the bail plea of the two Italian marines, who had shot dead two Indian fishermen. While Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh thrice on the issue, the Indian Ambassador to Italy, Debabrata Saha, was summoned by the country's foreign minister. Speaking about the development, the Indian envoy...
09:50 PM, May 19, 2012
Seoul: Expressing concern over the "nature of imprisonment" of two marines in Kerala, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti on Monday pressed his counterpart Manmohan Singh to find "some solution" to the issue that has become a major irritant in bilateral ties. Mario took up the issue with Singh when they met here on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit, over a month after the two marines were arrested for...
10:53 PM, Mar 26, 2012
