ROME, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Italian Interior Minister Giuliano Amato vowed Tuesday to resist pressures to restore the soccer calendar before safety ensured in an outside stadiums.

    Amato and other Cabinet ministers held an emergency meeting with soccer officials Monday to outline tough measures in response to the violence.

    He said that 34 people were arrested following Friday's rioting in Catania, including 11 minors. None was believed to be responsible for the death of 38-year-old police officer Filippo Raciti, but they were suspected of violence against public officials and vandalism.

    "There's no doubt that from that soccer world pressure will come that the show must go on, that soccer is a big deal," Amato told lawmakers Tuesday in the Chamber of Deputies. "We have a duty, before our law enforcement officials and our citizens, to resist these pressures."

    Ensuring safety is more important than economic interests that demand that the show go on as if nothing happened," he said.

    Amato's comments appeared to be a response to soccer league president Antonio Matarrese, whose remarks that soccer should not be halted outraged many.

    The minister said that a package of measures put in place by his predecessor was not properly implemented, and took clubs to task for failing to meet the security requirements.

    New security measures adopted include barring soccer fans from stadiums where security requirements are not met and barring clubs from selling blocks of tickets to visiting fans in order to control who enters the stadium.