“The stabilization of Libya is essential,” Italy’s Defense Minister Guido Crosetto told his country’s joint Foreign Affairs and Defense committees of the Chamber and Foreign Affairs of the Senate on Thursday.
“So far we have achieved very little compared to the efforts made” in Libya, Crosetto then pointed out, mentioning the various missions that Italy will be engaged in Libya also in 2023, at both a national and international and European level.
Among these missions is a “remodulated” Bilateral Assistance and Support Mission (Miasit), the Safe Mediterranean Mission, for which the naval device prepared for the fight against illicit trafficking was confirmed, the Operation Irini Mission, whose operational command will continue to be hosted in Rome and EUBAM Libya, whose objective is to provide assistance in border management.
Italy, Crosetto also reported, is ready to play a role of “facilitator” in the reunification of the Libyan armed forces, where the conditions are created.