Reply #4: Diplomatic language at its finest: [View All]

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"Out of a dutiful homage to Calipari and ... national dignity that a government must have, the Italian government could not have been asked to sign off on reconstruction of the facts that as far as we know does not correspond to what happened that night," Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini told reporters after the statement was released.

Fini said the final report would be released "within a few days," and he promised it will make clear "why the Italian government could not sign off a reconstruction of events that in our opinion does not capture 100 percent what happened."