Italy asks for southern front become NATO priority

Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said he had successfully asked an Atlantic Council meeting to make NATO’s southern front a priority for the alliance.
“I’m very satisfied because the Italian request to look to the southern front was welcomed with great enthusiasm and the work done by NATO’s group of experts, who prepared a document, was seen very positively,” said Tajani, who is also deputy premier.
“We spoke at length also of the possibility of having a special envoy for the southern front and I asked that the southern question should become priority for NATO.

And I feel there was great attention to this”.

Meanwhile, the centrality NATO currently has, following international events including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, shows the farsightedness of the agreement that created the alliance 75 years ago, President Sergio Mattarella said on Wednesday.
“The current international situation, dramatically marked by the re-emergence of drives towards war and threats to security, makes it fitting to reflect on today’s anniversary,” the head of State said.
“Indeed, 75 years ago a group of countries concluded the North Atlantic Treaty.
“It was a real turning point, dictated by the determination to make peace secure, to create a space for cooperation and mutual assistance, to protect the irrepressible right to individual and collective self-defense.
“Today, with the return of war to the European continent, the farsightedness of that choice can be fully understood”.

Photo: Meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs – Brussels Belgium – 3-4 April 2024. NATO

Via ANSA