Govt cohesive, compact, determined on foreign policy - PM

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 19 - The government is cohesive, compact, and determined on foreign policy, Premier Giorgia Meloni said Tuesday despite an apparent contradiction between her calling Russian elections a sham and her deputy premier Matteo Salvini saying Russian voters were right to re-elect President Vladmir Putin.
    "I don't have many things to say even though I found the debate rich in ideas and many elements of agreement, even across the board. Some things, however, I do not agree with, starting with Senator Sensi's intervention (denying) the compactness of the majority' in foreign policy, Meloni said in her reply to the Senate on her briefing on this week's EU Council.
    "There is nothing beyond the government's political line that is not voted on in the chamber and taken abroad. And I can say without fear of contradiction that the government in a year and a half has the same position and the same determination as is recognised abroad but not in Italy".. (ANSA).