Italy is most credible and solid interlocutor of the US in the EU – Pompeo
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Italy is “the first, most credible, most solid interlocutor of the US in the European Union,” Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini told the press after meeting Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington Monday.
Salvini said his after talks with Pompeo that Italy had “common visions and solutions” with the Trump administration on foreign policy issues ranging from Iran to the Middle East and from Venezuela to Libya.
The Interior Minister said “Italy s the biggest European country with which the United States can and want to dialogue: I’m here to open a channel that may be huge, and of extremely great interest for both (sides)”.
Salvini has been nurturing relations with Trump since the latter’s presidential election campaign, and has said that while other countries have “chosen different paths”, Italy wanted to return to being the “most important partner in continental Europe for the biggest western democracy”.
“And not only for economic and commercial interests,” he told reporters after arriving in Washington. “But also due to our common vision of the world, of values, of work, family and rights.”
Salvini attended a wreath-laying ceremony at the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington national cemetery on Monday before going to the White House.
