Tajani participated in the program called “5 Minutes” on Rai 1 channel and made evaluations about the international agenda. Stating that they are approaching the Syrian issue carefully, Tajani said, “I am optimistic about the situation in Syria. There are people returning from other countries, Lebanon and Turkey. I believe that the situation can go in the right direction, but we must be cautious.” he said.
“Türkiye IS AN IMPORTANT INTERVIEWER TO CONTROL THE SITUATION IN SYRIA”
Tajani recalled that he had a long meeting with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan, including the issue of protecting Christian minorities in Syria, and said, “Turkey is an important interlocutor to control the situation in Syria.” he said.
Referring to the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Ahmed al-Shara (Abu Muhammad al-Julani), the Italian minister said, “He wants to gain prestige in the world, let’s see if concrete steps will follow these stances. We are monitoring the situation minute by minute because Syria “The stability of ‘s is essential for the stability of the Middle East.” he said.
Stating that those who entered the embassy in Damascus with their weapons yesterday and took away 3 vehicles belonging to the embassy were armed criminals, Tajani stated that the situation was under control and said, “We decided to leave our embassy in Damascus open in order to follow the development of the situation and to be in this region of the Middle East as Italy.” We got it.” he said.
Minister Tajani noted that there is no problem for Italians in Syria, some of the approximately 300 people went to Lebanon and left this country, but others wanted to stay because some of them had Syrians in their families, and that they followed the situation of each of them through the crisis desk in their ministry.
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