Afghanistan, Di Maio: “Ensuring Italy’s leading role”

After today’s kamikaze attack in Kabul, briefing on Afghanistan in the Council of Ministers for Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, who illustrated the ‘Italian plan for the Afghan people’. “In the next few hours – he would have said to what has been learned – the evacuation operations will be concluded, it is now necessary to elaborate ‘phase 2’, with a short and medium term perspective, which must have an orderly, structured and strategic nature. Esteri is ready to coordinate the definition of ‘an Italian plan to support the Afghan people’, which we have already begun to work on and which we intend to finalize in the coming days “. Read also “The Farnesina – continued the minister – is therefore ready to launch an Interministerial Control Room on Afghanistan, at the level of Senior Officials, involving all the Administrations concerned by the entire range of initiatives we want to launch. It is essential that every Administration can contribute “.” We must have the objective of guaranteeing a leading international role for Italy on the Afghan dossier “, he would say again, continuing:” In recent days we have received numerous manifestations of readiness to help the Afghan people coming from municipal and regional administrations and expressions of the territory “.