Contacts with Qatar against escalation with Hezbollah - FM

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 22 - Italy is keeping up contacts with Qatar to help make sure there is no escalation of the Israel-Hamas war with Hezbollah, Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani told Italian TV Sunday.
    In northern Israel, "so far there have been skirmishes, not a real war, with Hezbollah attacks and Israeli responses," Tajani told In mezz'ora on Rai 3.
    "But the situation is tied to a thread and it is important that it does not break, Qatar is working and we are in constant contact.
    "The Italian government is playing a leading role because we are in contact with all the interlocutors to explain what our position is." On the crisis, "we are all working to avoid the escalation and expansion of the conflict to Lebanon and Iran," the minister stressed. (ANSA).