The world is experiencing growing instability, aggravated by the war in Ukraine and the bitter conflict in the Middle East, and expectations for the future “are not positive”warned this Saturday the head of Defense of Italy, Guido Crosetto, at the opening of the G7 Defense meeting in the city of Naples.
“THE Russia’s brutal attacks in Ukraine and very critical situation in the Middle East“combined with the deep instability in sub-Saharan Africa and the growing tensions in the Indo-Pacific region, reveal a complex security framework with future prospects that are not positive,” Crosetto said in a keynote speech that gave the kick-off of the G7 Defense ministers meeting.
The Italian minister – the country which currently chairs the G7 – warned that “it seems that these conflicts are geographically distant”but they have “a deep and interconnected dynamic” with the group of the world’s seven most industrialized democracies that make up the United States, Germany, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom.
Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto speaks at the G7 Defense Ministers meeting in Naples.
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The G7 Defense summit held this Saturday includes in its list of subjects the war in the Middle East, the war in Ukraine and support for kyiv, as well as the potential to be developed in Africa. It aims to propose coordination of policies and common lines of action in the face of conflicts and areas of global instability.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Joseph Borrellalso attended the summit.
“It’s not negotiable.”
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, estimated on Saturday that the current political context opens a potential possibility for Lebanon to rebuild its “full” sovereignty, “destroyed by external actors” and whose respect, for him, “is not negotiable”.
“There is a new political context in Lebanon, full of dangers, but which could potentially also provoke changes,” declared the head of European diplomacy in a message on the social network so that the country can finally rebuild its full sovereignty, destroyed by external actors. .
To reconstruct it, the high representative listed five important measuresthe first of which was “an immediate ceasefire”, followed by the “rapid election of a president” of the country, aspects which he had previously discussed with the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Berri, as reported Borrell himself through the same social network.
To these measures, he added “the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 and the exclusive deployment of the Lebanese Armed Forces in the South.”
He reflected on this third aspect on Friday on his blog “A window on the world”, where he stressed that “The Lebanese army must return to southern Lebanon”. Additionally, Borrell stressed in X today the need for a “stronger mandate for UNIFIL,” the UN-deployed peacekeeping force.
“With the bombardment of the units of the FINAL –and the injuries of four soldiers– the Israel Defense Forces they crossed a red line“, he said on his blog on Friday, adding that “all 27 EU member states have condemned it” and that “in the future, UNIFIL should be given a stronger mandate to ensure peace at the border.”
