Speaking to see the minister, Elisabetta Trenta, have tea with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in Beirut. In Arab countries hospitality is not only form, but substance: those who deal with Middle Eastern things had not escaped that no "convivial" photos were broadcast during the brief visits of Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini to Libya and Egypt. With the excuse of the inauguration of General Stefano Del Col at the helm of the UNIFIL mission, in place of the Irish counterpart Michael Beary, Italy has - let's face it: finally! - said with seriousness and clarity what is his position about the balance in the region, beyond the noisy pigolare of the political theater. He did it through the person, with a hard and maternal aspect, of the Minister of Defense and of the Defense Chief of Staff, Claudio Graziano, meeting the leaders of politics and defense of the Cedar Country, who escaped more cautiously than luckily the attraction of the Syrian conflict and the attempts, not least the Saudi one in the 2017, to drag it into a new international war.
"We are here to reaffirm our commitment to the stability of the region"Said La Trenta. General Graziano, whom the Lebanese still remember and appreciate for having guided UNIFIL when it was still in the prodromal phase, further clarified the concept: "The Lebanese Armed Forces play a key role in securing the institutional framework and stability of Lebanon both internally and against external threats. For this reason, in addition to the substantial participation in the UNIFIL operation, Italy will deploy the bilateral MIBIL mission aimed at implementing training and training programs in favor of the Lebanese Armed Forces ".
At the same time, Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi
he was engaged in a historic mission in Cairo, the first at this level after the barbaric and mysterious murder of the University of Cambridge researcher, Giulio Regeni. Even the minister chosen by President Mattarella to lead the foreign ministry spoke clearly, without wasting time talking only about migratory flows: "Italy and Egypt share the geopolitical responsibility on Libya. We have agreed on all the relevant points on the current Libyan situation and look at the integrity, security, peace of the country and the wellbeing of the Libyans and their possibility to speak in elections", but without precipitating it as suggested by the French, it is useless to say that the two countries have spoken of having as a stone convoy the mega gas field called Zohr, in the intentions of both (but perhaps not of all European capitals) determining for the energy and industrial future of Italy and Egypt.
Speaking to mother-in-law because daughter-in-law means: the message that was to come was directed not only to two key elements of our foreign policy (on the one hand, Lebanon and its stability, on the other Egypt and the future common energy resources), but also to those who remained in Rome, the government but also in the center-left, respectively plan to derive valuable financial resources from cutting funds to international missions and campaigning by asking for the break with Cairo for the aforementioned case of the student of the Professor Maha Abdelrahman. In so doing, a part of the majority and part of the "gauchiste" opposition, paraphrasing a definition given to the communist parties of Italy and France, would prove to be essentially nationalist ... foreign political forces, not at the service of Italy's strategic interests.
