«This last day of the Conference of scientific and space workers and agricultural experts, promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, concludes a three-day period that has made Reggio Calabria a protagonist». The mayor of Reggio Calabria, Francesco Cannizzaro, said this, speaking at the Francesco Cilea Theater on the final day of the event. «An appointment – Cannizzaro recalled – which was a precise promise made last summer by Minister Tajani. A commitment respected today for which I can only express feelings of gratitude. This initiative in Reggio Calabria with the component of scientific and space workers and agricultural experts is redeveloping for Calabria, and for Reggio in particular.”
«Only dialogue between institutions – said Cannizzaro – can project us towards the stages that this territory deserves. The scientific community present in Reggio these days has had the opportunity to understand, given that agri-food was also discussed, what strengths this Region has, which in the past was described as an underdeveloped region, a marginal region”. «I am pleased that Minister Tajani, and President Roberto Occhiuto also did so – Cannizzaro recalled – to have remembered how strategic Calabria, and Reggio in particular, can be for the implementation of the Mattei plan. I have told my friend Tajani several times that Reggio is a candidate to become a mission city of the Mattei Plan. I believe it has all the conditions to be so, with the port of Gioia Tauro.”