(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 22 - The West is Italy's playing field and
it is Rome's mission to defend it, Premier Giorgia Meloni told
Italian envoys to the world on Thursday.
"We are faced with huge challenges and it is necessary to best
use our resources, the tools of foreign policy, of diplomacy,
and security," she told the Conference of Ambassadors in Rome.
"We are faced with the mission of defending the system which we
created out of the rubble of the Second World War.
"We must avoid the risk that this situation may reduce us to the
role of recounting the West, our playing field, against the rest
of the world.
"For this reason dialogue is needed. The conflict in Ukraine is
a watershed, we must renew our ties with our friendly
countries". (ANSA).