• Syria, Di Maio: devastating effects on the humanitarian level. Turkey stops immediately
  • Syria, Di Maio: "Unanimous condemnation of the EU in Ankara and stop to arms"

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30 October 2019 Italy has ordered the return of soldiers engaged in the South of Turkey in the Active Fence mission, communicating it to NATO. Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said this in his statement on Syria in the Senate, explaining that "bloody conflicts like the one in Syria cannot be resolved by resorting to additional force". Di Maio explains that "we immediately denounced that the offensive of Turkey risks undermining the efforts made in the anti-Daesh action and to undermine the results obtained by the coalition in recent years in eliminating the threat of the caliphate". About the danger Isis, Di Maio explained that "the death of Al Baghdadi is a step forward to neutralize the terrorist threat, which is still very serious and current".


Instead to the Kurdish forces "we owe all our gratitude. We have intensified the dialogue with our partners to recall the responsibility of all the countries involved in the fight against terrorism". The foreign minister assured that "Italy will continue to provide humanitarian assistance throughout Syria, we believe it is essential to maintain dialogue with the Turkish government to encourage a descalation based on the work of diplomacy". A truce has arrived for now with the agreement between Russia and Turkey, but Di Maio does not seem convinced. "Any development that puts an end to armed clashes is to be welcomed, but there are some question marks that we set ourselves with respect to the contents of the agreement between Ankara and Moscow. We need a definitive cessation of hostilities, the withdrawal of the Turkish armed forces from Syria, to full respect for the law ".

"This aggression of Turkey is destabilizing the area and puts at risk the security not only of Italy but of the whole of Europe, because the foreign fighters who are on that territory, who have been fought by the Kurdish people who go all the way our gratitude and gratitude, I am at risk of going back to freedom or in some cases I am already because they were in some prisons run by the Kurdish people ". This was stated by Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio in the reply after the information in the Senate on the situation in Syria.



On the blockade of arms exports "from the formal point of view we need international bodies to declare that Turkey and Syria are in conflict, we are not stalling. We must find the best way to support the measure, which is administrative and lends itself to remedies ". For me the Turkish one is an unjustified aggression that has no foundation, I want to say it clearly "." We were among the first countries to ask for "the blockade, he adds," but before moving we asked that all the others did as well . We cannot think at this moment that the EU Member States are moving independently ", he concludes.


"On the subject of whether or not to speak with Assad, I believe that this time is ripe for making a tiny little step forward within the Constitutional Committee which represents our beacon in solving the problem of the instability of Syria".