ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “We will see what the Turks will say and” if the missile “was directed towards Turkey. We must always be very careful and avoid an escalation. We support Turkey, we are close to the Turkish people, but any choice must be made with great caution. I do not think that now there are reasons for the application of Article 5′′. So the Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, during a press point at the Farnesina. “We intervened in support of Cyprus, we will see the demands that Turkey will make, but we try to move with great circumspection just to avoid escalation,” he adds.
“There are no other interventions than those that have already been there. I have just spoken to the ambassador in Beirut, he told us that the launches of Hezbollah missiles against Israel continue, which certainly does not help the situation, but there are now no planned or ongoing land attacks on the Israeli side, as well as the presence already there in southern Lebanon. We are working to reduce tension, we have invited everyone to avoid a deterioration in the situation, especially in southern Lebanon,” he said.
“Our Italian soldiers who are in Kuwait are safe. We are proceeding to the reduction of personnel in Beirut and Baghdad because of the complicated military situation and hope that, even if it is difficult, the diplomacy prevails at the end,” he said.
“With regard to Italian citizens, the situation is improving now because they are recovering many scheduled flights, so I would say that there is no more emergency. The only critical point is the Maldives, where there is no war, they are only Italians who are trying to return. There are regular flights, but the scheduled flights they have resumed are not enough to dispose of all those who want to return quickly. We are also reinforcing our organization in Malé, where other officials arrived – continues – we solved it in Colombo, we are slowly resolving the situation in Thailand. While remaining a worrying situation for the attacks there are, there are no Italians who want to return to Italy. Those residents stay. We left the reinforcements sent to the various offices to help embassy and consulates to assist all Italians if there is a worsening situation. For now the emergency situation has remained only in the Maldives,” he concludes.
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