A mission to defend Western merchant ships as they pass through the Red Sea. «Italy is an exporting country, we have a duty to protect maritime traffic and protect merchant ships that, through the Suez Canal, export our products»: Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani told RaiNews24 in this regard of the source EU mission in the Red Sea. «It will be a defensive mission and I believe that the decision could be made at the beginning of February», he further explained. “I hope the mission can begin in the first half of February.”
Tajani spoke of “active military defense”, “with new rules of engagement”, considering that the two Italian military frigates already committed to the EU mission in the Gulf “have the task not only of escorting but of defending, and are therefore authorized to open fire or shoot down missiles or drones.”
Source: IL Tempo
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