"Thank you for what you are doing, represent in this area our Republic, its capacity for international solidarity, its commitment to stability and security, not only in the context of the Alliance but of the entire international community".
Thus the Minister of Defense, Elisabetta Trenta, on an official visit to Latvia, where she met the Italian contingent framed in the Canadian-led Multinational Battle Group (BG), as part of the “Baltic Guardian” operation.
The presence of Italy alongside the contingents of other NATO countries is "the demonstration of the new and strong capacity for reassurance and solidarity that the Atlantic Alliance is developing in favor of the Eastern European members, in particular the three Baltic Republics and Poland, in order to face possible external threats coming from neighboring countries" he added.
"Italy - said the owner of the Dicastery - he has never escaped his duties as a responsible member of the international community".
Support for the allies from whom Italy is asking, in turn, for support, as Minister Trenta underlined on the sidelines of the visit to the Contingent: "This contingent testifies Italy's solidarity with its NATO allies, our attention to their concerns. And it is precisely this solidarity that has led us, in the last summits, to ask the Alliance to pay more attention to the South, in the Mediterranean, a strategic area for Italy where risks of different nature are concentrated, first and foremost the traffic of human beings towards our shores".
Previously, the minister had met with his Latvian colleague, Raimond Bergmanis. Colloquium during which he confirmed the national commitment as a concrete signal of solidarity towards the Member States towards the Allies on the eastern flank.
On Monday, in Warsaw, the bilateral meeting with the Minister of National Defense of the Republic of Poland, Mariusz Błaszczak, was instead an opportunity to analyze issues of common interest such as NATO, the European Union (PESCO), immigration and theaters of crisis.
