President Meloni’s message on the 40th anniversary of UNICEF Innocenti and the 80th anniversary of UNICEF

Dear Executive Director Russell, dear friends, I am very sorry not to have been able to join you in Florence today, but I nevertheless wanted to send you my greetings and celebrate such a significant milestone with you, albeit from a distance. You are gathered in a place that speaks for itself: the ‘Spedale degli Innocenti’, Europe’s oldest institution dedicated entirely to looking after and caring for children. For over six centuries, ever since the first child – Agata Smeralda – was welcomed within those walls, a simple truth has been reaffirmed in that institution day after day: every child is a precious gem and should be welcomed, protected and defended at all costs. The history of the Spedale degli Innocenti makes us proud, and for the last forty years it has been inextricably linked to another story which is equally important: the story of UNICEF, which chose this institution as the headquarters for its global research and documentation centre. This centre of excellence is where the studies and analyses that guide so many nations’ child policies take shape. Today, we are preparing to take another step forward together. In fact, with the Headquarters Agreement we are about to

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