«The impartiality of the blue helmets is one of the Unifil pillars. Either there is Unifil or there is war.” The Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, in his briefing to the Chamber, uses clear words on the situation in the Middle East. Where there will be no step back from the UN contingent. “If we gave up the presence of United Nations soldiers in that area of the world today, we would give up the world’s ability to resolve international disputes peacefully,” he reiterated. «Unifil did not carry out the task because it could not carry it out, as the rules of engagement were written, it could not because the people who went there thought they had to carry out the role they play in another environment, which is no longer the one in which it takes place, and because the other pillar which is the Lebanese armed forces have fallen, destroyed by inflation, by the economic problem. A soldier now earns a twenty-fifth of what he used to earn. It’s as if an Italian soldier continued to serve as a soldier earning one hundred euros a month. And having an alternative, there is another military force in the country with much higher economic recruiting capacity. This is what is happening in Lebanon. And only two parties can resolve this, Unifil and the international community on the one hand, and the growth of the Lebanese forces on the other”, explained government member Meloni.
Israel: how he takes action to limit the damage” bad-src=”https://www.iltempo.it/assets/images/placeholder_iltempo.png”/>«This is something – Crosetto highlights in the Chamber – that Italy has been saying for over a year. For over a year we have been bringing together nations from all over the world with the aim of adopting the Lebanese armed forces, which means guaranteeing economic resources, guaranteeing training, guaranteeing the equipment necessary for them to exist, so that in some way they constitute the backbone of a country that must be rebuilt and allow that country to regain a freedom that it has lost. We are faced with a crisis in a country that has taken in two million refugees arriving from Syria, in a country that is currently occupied on the one hand by an internal force, Hezbollah, and on the other occupied by an external force , which is Israel. If not in these cases – he concluded, questioning the room – when is the international community needed? If not in these cases, when can the voices of nations unite without having diversity?”.
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