BARI - British ambassador, Jill Morris, paid a visit to Bari’s Commonwealth cemetery, with mayor Antonio Decaro, during her trip to Puglia and Basilicata to attend G20 meetings. They placed a wreath of flowers in remembrance of the fallen.  

  “It is the first time that I have been here and I am very grateful to the mayor to have given me this opportunity to pay homage to the people who lost their lives to defend our freedom and democracy. We must never forget their sacrifice,” expressed Morris. 

 Decaro said that: “the sacrifice in terms of human lives for our two countries and for other European countries, during the two wars, was enormous. Today we are here, to remember them but also, in a symbolic way, to say ‘no’ to war and to every form of violence. For me it has been an honour to accompany the British ambassador.” 

  The site, in Bari, for the institution of the War Cemetery, was established in November 1943. It is one of the 126 cemeteries created in Italy for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The cemetery houses 2,230 tombs from the Second World War, 171 of which are unidentified. At the entrance to the cemetery is a stone inscribed with: “their name liveth for everyone.” 

  Morris also visited the Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno premises and emphasised the close relationship between the UK and the two Italian regions of Puglia and Basilicata. Despite Brexit, London firmly believes in the potential of the South of Italy and has invested strongly in small and medium-sized enterprises in Puglia and Basilicata.

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