MILAN (ITALPRESS) – The first thing Guido Crosetto did on Wednesday night, just heard of the attack on Erbil, after warning the premier and the two vice-premier, was to send “a message to all parties leaders. By majority and opposition.” Although it was fortunately an action without consequences for our military because “we were warned 4 hours before a possible attack and all our soldiers were able to secure themselves. This is also demonstrating how the relationships between our intelligence and Italian defence and other countries involved in the area work.” In an interview with Corriere della Sera, Defense Minister Guido Crosetto. He immediately informed everyone why “there exists 95% of themes on which majority and opposition can collide, but this is not. This concerns all Italians – our security, the war made by others, the political and economic consequences – and it should be matter on which it does not beat itself for interests of shop but sits at a table and reason together. I expect they will. There are political forces that are well aware of what is happening. It is not on this ground that we can afford to collide.”.
The Minister of Defense repeats what “for two years I say: multilateralism is dying, it is the era of the great powers, of China, America, Russia. The rules of international law are neglected, ignored and prevailed those of the strongest. For this reason, we countries that are not great powers and that undergo the wars that burn the world we must fight to return to respect by all the rules of the paper of the UN.”
On the accusations of the opposition accused of a succube government of America, he replied: “It seems to me exactly the opposite. What should we do more, according to them? The war on U.S., Russia, Iran? The premier was very clear in Parliament: this is not our war, we did not want it, we are not part of it. We’re working in every way to get back to the table and diplomacy. And we try to make Europe express with a single voice, united, as I did in agreement with you at the E5 meeting, pushing on two fundamental points.” “The first is to officially ask, as India and China have done, to allow the passage to Hormuz of the ships of countries that are not in war. The only ones who will not suffer increases in oil and gas prices will be Usa and Russia. All the others have, even if we have long been working to open channels with Algeria, with Azerbaijan and other countries with which, over the years, we spent ourselves as a government and I personally”. At the EU, the Italian government asks “That for a limited period bureaucratic choices are suspended, so that energy costs are 40% higher than other countries, for example. It is a minimum of common sense and it is not necessary to waste time to do so.”.
On the fact that Italy does not attack Trump, Crosetto says: “We should have attacked him? Would you have given something more even to a citizen? As President Meloni said, we were not at the table on the uranium, which jumped, and we have no elements to judge if it is true, as U.S. and Israel said that the Iranians were two months from the realization of an atomic weapon. They argue that the legitimacy of their intervention is based on that danger. We live such a difficult time because some problems pose them countries that have always been allies and friends, to which we owe our democracy and freedom. We cannot blow up strategic and inseparable alliances at such delicate times. Sometimes it is necessary to maintain lucidity, silence, not to polemize, but to act with all the means we have.” On the risks of Italian soldiers, he replied: “Our military always knows how to take risks when they are on mission. They’re military. They were even before and they always are. We only know when something happens. The risk depends on where and why our forces are displaced. As for Erbil, where a basis of the Inherent Resolve coalition was attacked, we had already begun a reduction of civil and military personnel. One part has been moved, 102 people have returned to Italy, 75 in Jordan, for the rest is organizing a displacement by land to return to Italy because in the entire area you can not fly. My first axle is the safety of everyone. For other missions is different.” On the soldiers present in Lebanon, he reveals, “There are 1,300 people, there is a constant evaluation to monitor with the Lebanese authority, the United Nations and the Israeli counterpart if there are conditions to continue the mission or not. We should know more at hours because the Secretary General of the UN is now in Beirut and because it is clear that one thing is a mission of peace, another presence in a territory where the war is in progress. The work we have always done in Lebanon is important for the stability of that country. But we will assess everything by having as priority the safety of our soldiers.”.
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