Italy's foreign minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi was on Tuesday due to address the 'The Right to Peace as the Foundation of Europe' taking place in the northern city of Bologna, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
Speakers at the conference also include Vatican secretary for relations with states Paul Richard Gallagher, and the Archbishop of Bologna Matteo Maria Zuppi and the University of Bologna's rector Francesco Ubertini, who will open the event, the statement said.
The conference is being organised by the University of Bologna and by the Department of the Theology of Evangelization of Emilia Romagna, according to the statement.