A full-blown civil war in Sudan,
where rival generals have been fighting for weeks reaping
hundreds of victims, would necessarily affect Italy by
destablising neighbouring countries and boosting migrant flows,
among other things, Defence Minister Guido Crosetto told the
parliamentary foreign affairs and defence committees Thursday.
"A civil war in Sudan would risk having negative effects on
Egypt and Libya by destabilising nations deeply affected by the
Ukraine crisis. For example, Egypt has been hit by the wheat
shortage and the rising cost of energy. If I add to that a
migratory problem, and if this is also happening in Libya, the
sum of the two things - considering what is happening in Tunisia
- means a further worsening of their internal situation, their
stability and what can happen to us too," Crosetto told a joint
session of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committees, in the
context of the examination of their deliberations on Italian
missions abroad.
Crosetto also explained that a mission to Sudan cannot be
planned at the moment.
There have been reports of civilian atrocities as fighting
continues to rage in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, West Darfur
and other areas, while the intensification of the factional
fighting has promoted a $3 billion UN aid call.
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