“I would have liked to stay tomorrow too, but we did what we had to do. Now our presence is required elsewhere.” Giorgia Meloni takes off from Japan a day ahead of schedule. The G7 ends tomorrow, when the prime minister will have landed in Emilia Romagna, after a technical stopover in Kazakhstan. The bad weather emergency cannot wait any longer, “I can no longer stay so far from Italy, my conscience forces me to return to such a complex moment”, confessed the Prime Minister during a press conference in the middle of the night organized at the Grand Prince Hotel in Hiroshima. “I need to see it personally and work firsthand to provide the necessary answers”, he adds, explaining that he shared with the other leaders the decision to bring forward the return. A choice that “everyone understood and supported”, he underlined, thanking the solidarity shown. In the Council of Ministers scheduled for Tuesday, he announces, other resources will be allocated to face the emergency. “I think another 20 million”, he anticipates, postponing the calculation of the funds needed for the reconstruction: “We have to pray for this calamity to stop because otherwise it is difficult to make a total quantification”.
There is no need to wait to take stock of the G7. “In Japan, we are facing all the major crises that are going on – says Meloni -. We brought the Italian point of view to contribute to a future of security and prosperity. I believe that the summit was a success and that Italy should be very satisfied with the contribution that it made. led to the discussion and the results achieved. We are considered serious, credible, reliable partners. Italy is listened to carefully, as befits a major international player”.
The prime minister says that “she has recovered the issue of migratory phenomena, human trafficking, how to combat illegal migration, Africa and Tunisia after years of debate within the G7”. This last issue was raised directly during one of the summit’s working sessions and later in the conversation held with the director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva. “We talked a lot – he confesses – there is an attempt at an agreement in progress” to release the necessary resources to the country to avoid the risk of financial default. “We are trying to find a positive solution because if things exploded in Tunisia we would be the first to see the consequences”, said the FDI leader, who also addressed the issue in the tête-à-tête with Emmanuel Macron. Talks with the French president, he explains, “went well. We are two neighboring nations with many dossiers”.
The bilateral deal with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not go so well due to the unexpected leap to Italy on the issue of LGBT rights. “But I think Trudeau was a victim of fake news, he was probably a little reckless – interrupted Meloni, however -. I explained to him that we didn’t take any action about it”. Just as, at least for the time being, no decision has been taken on the dossier linked to the Silk Road. “It is a delicate evaluation, which we have not yet opened, which has consequences whatever the final choice – admits the prime minister -, and in which several actors of our national system must be involved, it is not a choice that I can make alone “. “We need to make a very thoughtful assessment”, he adds, noting that the government did not receive any pressure on the subject during the G7, “the subject was never mentioned”. The situation of the western ‘jet coalition’ for Ukraine is different: “We don’t have F16 and therefore we could hardly participate in this project. What needs to be evaluated is the possible training of Ukrainian pilots. It is a decision that we have yet to make, It is something that is being discussed with the allies”. Allies to which Meloni, before leaving, announced where the G7 chaired by Italy would take place next year. “It will be held in Puglia, the land that symbolizes the embrace between East and West, around mid-June, right after the European elections – he concludes -. Our priorities will obviously be Ukraine, economic security, energy, migration and attention to Africa.”
Source: IL Tempo

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