Di Maio and Blinken chair the first anti-Daesh meeting in Rome

According to what has been learned, on Monday 28 June the Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio will co-chair the plenary ministerial meeting of the anti-Daesh Coalition together with the US Secretary of State Blinken, for the first time in Rome. An appointment that returns after two years, the last dates back to February 2019. The ministerial, which will be held at the new Fiera di Roma, reads a note from the Farnesina, is expected to be attended by over 40 ministers of the countries that adhere to the Coalition, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and EU High Representative Josep Borrell, as well as some African countries invited as observers. The meeting will be an opportunity to renew the collective commitment of the members of the coalition to the lasting defeat of Daesh and to prevent any attempt to recover. To this end, ministers will reiterate the importance of maintaining a high level of attention on the commitment, including financial, to the stabilization of the liberated areas in Iraq and Syria. Isis, in particular its propagation in Africa and the need to counteract its rooting in the most fragile areas of the continent, starting from the Sahel. The ministerial confirms Italy’s high-profile commitment in the activities of the Coalition, both on the military and in the civil field. On the sidelines of the Coalition meeting there will also be a small-format meeting on Syria chaired by Secretary of State Blinken, which will also be attended by Minister Di Maio. The plenary ministerial meeting of the anti-Daesh Coalition to be held on June 28 in Rome, has said Minister Di Maio, “it will allow us to look at and reposition the instrument of the coalition against terrorism towards the south and in particular the Sahel”, which “arouses great concern”. “It is the first time to be held in Italy” Di Maio recalls, adding that the Spanish Foreign Minister, Arancha González Laya, will be in Rome for “two important appointments”, the meeting on the 28th and that of the “next day in Matera. with the ministerial session of the G20, where we invest in this back-to-back ministerial session with the ministers of development cooperation for a common plan of the G20 countries and international organizations on Africa, on the African continent in its relations with the EU , but also with other Mediterranean countries “.