Minister Crosetto at the United Nations to hold Institutional Meetings

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Defence Minister Guido Crosetto started today his 2-day mission in New York to hold high-level meetings at the United Nations.

The first meeting on the agenda was with Undersecretary General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix, at the UN Headquarters.

Subsequently, Minister Crosetto, accompanied by the Italian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Maurizio Massari, met the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres.

Talks provided an important opportunity to to strengthen the relationship with the UN leadership and share Italy’s position on the main themes on the international agenda: from the conflict in Ukraine, to the Middle East crisis, to a focus on UNIFIL/Lebanon security situation and an overview on instability in the Sahel and support to the UNSMIL mission in Libya. Moreover, Minister Crosetto expressed Italy’s strong support for the Accra Ministerial Meeting, scheduled on 5/6 December, aimed to strengthen and modernize the UN Peacekeeping.