28 February 2007 :
The Italian Prime Minister, Romano Prodi, told the Senate: “Recently we have engaged in a significant battle against the death penalty. With our proposed moratorium to the UN General Assembly, we have become the leader of a grand battle for civility.”Prodi added “it is a long battle that requires all our available energy: political, cultural and religious.”
(Sources: DIRE, 27/02/2007)
