“Italian government reiterates 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 we continue to work to avoid it.” Thus Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Twitter.
According to what we learn, following the attack Meloni changed his agenda and suspended some scheduled commitments, including the visit to Vinitaly in Verona tomorrow.
Tajani: “I hope prudence from the Israeli government”
“I hope that the Israeli government adopts the rule of prudence, I hope that there is no counterattack to the counterattack,” Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani told Rtl 102.5. “It is positive that the Iranian attack is over. It was blocked by Israel’s reaction with the support of its allies”, he then said, underlining that at the moment there is “no risk for the Italians”.
Obviously, he added, “this is an act, that of the attack, which is to be absolutely condemned. Now everyone must use prudence. Our objective as the Italian government which presides over the G7 is to do everything to avoid escalation. We must do everything to make the contenders more reasonable.”.
“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 Blinken and then there will be in Capri the G7 Foreign Affairs 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”, he further stated.