On 4
April 2001 the local newspaper of Trieste “IL PICCOLO” published the “official
document” issued by the joint committee of history experts with headquarters in
Rome and Ljubljana. The committee worked for ten years on a study of the Italo-Slovene
relations between 1880 and 1956. We decided to start a debate on the matter by
organizing a round table under the name “DOCUMENTI E STORICI DI CONFINE. Verità
accessibile e verità documentabile" (BORDER DOCUMENTS AND HISTORIANS.
Accessible truth and documentable truth). The meeting took place on 27 April
2001 in Trieste with the participation of history experts Almerigo Apollonio,
Antonio Sema e Roberto Spazzali, journalist Pierluigi Sabatti, author of the
above-mentioned article in the “PICCOLO”. Other Italian history experts,
members of the joint committee, did not show up despite our invitation. We
attach the complete text of the document as it appeared in the “PICCOLO”, the
official statement of I.R.C.I. wrote together with our researcher Almerigo
Apollonio, Sabatti, Sema and Spezzali. I.R.C.I. intends to keep the debate open
and promote other studies and public events, with the much-appreciated
contribution of some Slovenian history experts of the committee.
by Piero Delbello