ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “We decided to use Safe by requesting an intervention of 14.9 billion by the end of the year, we will formulate our proposal”. Antonio Tajani, Vice-Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs, said this in the course of the audition to the joint foreign commissions and defense of Chamber and Senate. The Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, always in the course of the hearing: “The Safe, as it was set up, is an instrument of financing military spending, not additional, not budget expenditure, so in Italy it is an alternative to bot, is a technical choice, which the minister will make by the end of the year. It is not a political choice, a technical choice, the political choice will be the budgetary deviation, which we will vote, if we vote in September, on 0,9 on defence and 0.6 on energy”.
“We must work to ensure that Europeans and Americans – as it is a political and not only military alliance – can find convergences to protect values, especially those of freedom and democracy, by this Alliance,” he said.
Regarding the Middle East, “we intend to go ahead with all the actions in support of a negotiating agreement, today there should be a meeting between the Gulf countries to see how to find a common position and foster a dialogue between the United States and Iran on the question of Hormuz,” said Tajani.
“As long as there is no lasting ceasefire we could not participate in any international mission – added the vice-premier and foreign minister –, provided that they are always missions related to international initiatives.”.
PORTAVOCE UE SU SAFE “DECISIONE ITALIA A DICEMBRE NON È TEMPISTICA ADATTA”
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