The Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, and the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, had a conversation today after Iran's retaliation against Israel last night and both condemned Tehran's actions.
“The Italian Government reiterates its condemnation of Iranian attacks against Israel. The Italian presidency of the G7 has organized a conference at leaders' level for the first afternoon of today. We express strong concern about further destabilization of the region and continue to work to avoid it,” he written Meloni on X (formerly Twitter).
“The Iranian attack on Israel must be strongly condemned. The international community's commitment must be entirely aimed at avoiding escalation, putting a ceasefire and building peace in the Middle East”, he said. stated in a Schlein note. “I have already spoken to the Prime Minister on this to express all our concerns and offer collaboration in the interests of Italy”.
Italy, or at least the leaders of the two main majority and opposition parties, thus sides with Israel, as has already been done by many nations, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Norway and the Czech Republic. , Argentina and Paraguay, and by the Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrel.
The deputy prime minister, foreign minister and leader of Forza Italia, Antonio Tajani, also joined in condemning Tehran. “This is an act to be absolutely condemned,” he said today to RTL 102.5. “Now everyone needs to use prudence: our objective as the Italian government that presides over the G7 is to do everything to avoid escalation and for the contenders to be more reasonable,” added Tajani. “I hope that the Israeli government adopts the rule of prudence and that there is no counterattack to the counterattack.”
Meanwhile, Meloni has called a video link meeting of the G7 leaders for this afternoon to discuss Iranian retaliation against Israel. “Today there will be the G7 meeting called by the Prime Minister, tomorrow morning I have summoned all the ambassadors of the Arab countries to address the situation, on Tuesday I will meet the Canadian Foreign Minister, on Wednesday the US Secretary of State (Antony, ed.) Blinken and then there will be the G7 Foreign Affairs meeting in Capri and obviously the first point will be the situation in the Middle East and we will see what we can do together to prevent the conflict from widening”, concluded Tajani.
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