Human Rights Secretary, Eduardo Luis Duhalde, announced that Argentina and Italy will sign a memorandum of understanding by which the Italian government will “declassify diplomatic files of missing Italian people or Italian descendants or Argentine people disappeared together with the Italians during the last military Argentine dictatorship.
Missing People’s files to be declassified.
Human Rights Secretary, Eduardo Luis Duhalde, announced that Argentina and Italy will sign a memorandum of understanding by which the Italian government will “declassify diplomatic files of missing Italian people or Italian descendants or Argentine people disappeared together with the Italians during the last military Argentine dictatorship.
The agreement will be endorsed by the Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman and his Italian peer Franco Frattini, in the presence of Duhalde and the president at the Memory File, Ramón Torres Molina, during President Cristina Fernández’s visit to Rome.
They are “diplomatic files” bearing the formal complaints filed by Italian relatives of the victim’s torture or forced disappearance before the diplomatic or consular representations.
Duhalde stated that the agreement expresses the Italian people’s will to foster declassification despite the habeas data law that protects people’s privacy.