Nowrooz Message from Fabio Carbone
ambassador at large of the International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT)
and founder of the IIPT-Iran Chapter.
My dear friends and colleagues in Iran. My fellow Iranians in all over the world: nowrooz
mobarak!
As every year, I take a moment in this important day to send you my best wishes for the new year, also on behalf of the International Institute for Peace through Tourism, which I have the honour to represent as ambassador-at-large, and in particular those of the Iranian Chapter of the Institute. This year, however, for obvious reasons, any message for the new year sounds like a bitter sweet symphony.
It’s an unusual New Year’s Eve, in which all of us are locked in our homes (and we have to do it!). It’s a new year marked by uncertainty, dismay, and unfortunately for some of us, marked even by mourning. Well, in this very difficult situation, our message is to be positive and to be proactive.
In particular, I would like to make a consideration with you: governments worldwide, media experts are inviting all of us to maintain social distance, in order to reduce the possibility of contagion. But beware: it’s the physical, spatial distance that we need in this moment. While we need more than ever a strong social proximity!!!
Solidarity, mutual assistance and support. Luckily new technologies allow us to stay close, even if distant! And who better than you, Iranian people, represents these wonderful values of social proximity? So once again we look at you as a model, once again we admire you.
Hold on, for this will pass, and we will be stronger and better than before! Hopefully the world will take this time of standby to reflect on many aspects of our life, to improve them. Among others, why not eventually review the idea of Tourism, in order to enhance its ability to create and maintain peace among peoples, peace with mother earth, peace with the past, peace with future generations, peace with ourselves. Hold on Iran, you are the most beautiful flower in the world.
Doostetoon darim, dar kenare shoma istadeh im! (we love you, and we stand by you!
Nowrooz mobarak. Happy New Year!
Fabio Carbone
Ambassador at large of the International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT)
Founder of the IIPT-Iran Chapter
Your message is so positive and nice . That’s my honour to have you as a friend. Happy Norooz for you too and thank you for your efforts.