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October 31, 201912.45 Delivering the decorations to the Military Order in the Quirinale, President Mattarella recalled the "support of absolute importance" given to NATO by the Italian armed forces. "In the Balkans and in Afghanistan our contribution is second only to the US. Even in the EU missions we are second and first among the Western countries in the UN ones". Mattarella also remembers the 20 years of Law 380, which opened the Armed Forces to women: a very positive balance, he says, over 16 thousand women in every sector of our defense.