ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “The plan presented by President Trump offers a real possibility to build a stable and lasting framework of peace and security. We know how fragile the truce is and how much work will be necessary to transform these opportunities into a long-term reality, but we are all committed to supporting and cultivating the unity of understanding demonstrated by the international community in Sharm el-Sheikh, reaching an unusual level of sharing and participation.” Thus the President of the Council, Giorgia Meloni, at the summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Bahrain. “Italy is doing its part, both forming Palestinian security forces and providing the aid package for their reconstruction conference. I remain convinced – he added – that in order to guarantee the Middle East the security and stability it deserves, we must work to achieve the structural solution of the two States and this requires the recognition by Israel of the right of the Palestinians to have their own state, and the definitive recognition of the right of the State of Israel to existence and security.”.
“I would like to work together with a Gcc-Med Summit, of course I am ready to host it in Italy to create this new and ambitious format of dialogue between Mediterranean countries: a format that does not want to compete with other international initiatives or forums and does not work as an alternative to them, but that wants to work on synergies and complementary and neutral strengths,” he announced. “Our goal must be to build a common operational platform, focusing on the challenges in which we can make a difference together and the first of this challenge lies in the development of increasingly decisive economic interconnections in the globalized and highly innovative economic landscape we are experiencing,” he added.
“We want to lay the foundations of a new energy diplomacy to multiply the opportunities for cooperation between Europe, Africa, Italy and the Gulf, and offer decisive opportunities for the success of the transition. Technological neutrality is the principle that must guide our thinking to build a mix of all available technologies and those on which research and innovation are working. On this theme, my idea is that the approach should be more pragmatic and less ideological,” he added. “Italy can be and will be the gateway to Europe for the Gulf, giving an even stronger impetus to economic cooperation that today is worth $35 billion a year, but still does not express the true potential of our relationship,” Meloni said.
“Italy is a nation with an ancient heart, with a look towards the future, able to fascinate the world with its identity and try to play a leading role on the European and international scene, a nation that brings in its Dna features such as dialogue, ability to confront everyone and respect for its interlocutor: this is our tradition, it is what has always characterized us, it is the heritage that has allowed the Italian civilization to contaminate and enrich itself without ever losing itself”, explained the premier.
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(ITALPRESS)
