Italy says Macron’s statements on intervention in Ukraine increase tension

The Italian Defense Minister, Guido Crosetto, considered that the French president’s statements, Emmanuel Macronabout the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine“increase tension”, in an interview published this Saturday in the newspaper ‘Corriere della Sera’.

“I don’t judge a president of a friendly country like Francebut I don’t understand the purpose and usefulness of these statementsthat objectively increase tension“, said the minister.

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Likewise, he reaffirmed that Italy’s position does not change and that although it has always defended the need to help UkraineHE “it excluded direct intervention by the Italian military in the conflict”.

“You have to help Ukraine to avoid an expansion of the conflict, but we must look for all forms of dialogue, starting to weave the web of diplomacy. Because if a conflict broke out, Italy would have a lot to lose.”he pointed Crosetto.

He also recalled that in Italy exist “an explicit prohibition of direct military interventions, outside the provisions of law and Constitution” and it can only be done “armed interventions by international mandate, for example, in application of a resolution of the UN”.

“All countries can do something more in terms of aid, but above all we must believe in and insist on diplomacy. We must leave no stone unturned to reach a truce: even a day without bombs is the result, because then they can become two, three, four…”, he added.

About the situation in Israel and the war in Linkassured that Italy is “a friendly country” but they have also been “very hard on them” and work is being done “openly for a truce and for no more innocent deaths”.

He emphasized: “In the same way, I would like every mobilization I see in favor of Palestine also went to Ukraine. These large demonstrations calling for peace, perhaps without resorting to violence, which unfortunately we have seen in recent days, especially in universities, are fine. But I would also like to see them because of all the Ukrainian civilian deaths.”

Source: Elcomercio

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