The Chief of the Defense Staff, Adm. Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, and his counterpart from the Government of Libyan National Unity (Tripoli), gen. Muhammad Al-Haddad, signed in Rome a agreement that entrusts Italy with the task of training Libyan special forces.
Admiral Cavo Dragone stressed the importance of cooperation between Italy and Libya also in military matters, also given the regional instability of the enlarged Mediterranean.
It is a step forward which also implies a remodeling of the Italian military presence in the African country. The Italian mission in Libya - focused on medical support in Misrata - can take on a more "technical" role and more pertinent to the protection of Rome's national interests in its former colony; interests that they are not solely and exclusively energy-related or linked to the immigration issue, but which are also - if not above all - political-military.
It is of fundamental importance for Rome to support - as well as for Ankara - projects such as the one which provides for the establishment of unitary Tripoli-Cyrenaean battalions (prodromal to the reunification of the Libyan Army) to be sent, presumably to Fezzan, because the unitary reconstitution of the Armed Forces is at the basis of the stabilization of Libya and therefore a blow to the external interference of powers which, with their presence, erode the already weak Italian influence.
