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January 10, 2020 "There is a terrorist risk that we can solve, we can avoid if we manage to put around a table all the actors of this crisis who are not only the Libyans unfortunately, but there are countries that have interference and continually interfere with this civil war. " Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said this at the end of the extraordinary Council of EU diplomacy leaders over Libya and Iran in Brussels. "Our goal - Di Maio said - is to put them around a table, together with other countries of the European community and the international community to find a solution".

Let's hope Berlin conference as soon as possible
On Libya "it is important to find the date as soon as possible of the Berlin conference, because it is the conference that will allow us to put all the actors of this crisis and all the actors of this war around a table," continued the Foreign Minister . "The role of the EU is central to resolving the proxy conflict that is taking place in Libya". "We have Libya a few hundred kilometers from our shores and there is not only an instability risk. There is a terrorism risk that we can solve, we can avoid if we manage to put all the actors of this crisis around a table ", It reaffirmed.

Iran, implement agreement. EU delegation to Tehran
On Iran "we think that the nuclear non-proliferation agreement must continue to be implemented to the bitter end, try with maximum dialogue," said Di Maio, at the end of the extraordinary EU Council. Furthermore, according to Di Maio, the EU must "live up to our pacts made in the fight against terrorism. We have our men and women, our soldiers, in that region. We support them. My thoughts and our closeness go to them as government". Finally, "the EU must have a greater role in dialogue and in making the parties in the region converse". According to the Foreign Minister, "a greater presence of the EU in that region is also important to foster a de-escalation. We have asked for it to be speeded up by the opening of the EU delegation in Iran because it can allow the EU to dialogue even more more with the parties ".

Stoltenberg: no request to NATO in Libya. Maas: arms embargo
Secretary-General of the Atlantic Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, underlines that in Libya "nobody has asked for a military role of NATO". German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas calls for "effective ceasefire and arms embargo" to be promoted, followed by "a political process under the auspices of the United Nations".