From the Augustan Altar of Peace, the Ara Pacis, dedicated to Pax Romana, the Indo-Mediterranean Initiative (IMI) was launched on the 16th of June. Under the aegis of Senator Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata, the initiative will study, support, and promote the India-Italy partnership, especially in the context of the India-Middle East-Europe economic corridor (IMEC), launched at the G20 in New Delhi in September 2023. The events were part of the two day India Forum 2024 in Rome, organised by the Chief Representative for Italy of the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Vas Shenoy.
The IMI also announces the arrival of India as a great power, a cyclic return after almost 500 years of colonisation and humiliation. “During the first day yesterday, together with illustrious Italian and international analysts and experts, we discussed the growing challenges, opportunities, and synergies emerging from the increasingly close connection between India and Italy, between the Indo-Pacific and Europe. Everyone was unanimously convinced that IMEC, the Economic Corridor launched by the Indian Presidency of the last G20, which saw Italy among the very first signatories, will be much more than an infrastructure project.
” said Senator Terzi, one of Italy’s former foreign ministers and a senior member of Prime Minister Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia party. Also present as a speaker was Amb Francesco Taló, former diplomatic advisor to the Prime Minister, while she visited India in 2023 and sig.