AGI – The Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, participated in a videoconference, organized by the US, with President Biden, President Macron, Chancellor Scholz, Prime Minister Johnson, President Duda, European Council President Michel, Commission President von der Leyen and NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg.
The leaders – announced Palazzo Chigi – they examined the progress of the crisis at the borders of Ukraine in the light of developments on the ground and the results of the numerous diplomatic contacts that have taken place both bilaterally and in the various multilateral formats.
Support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. The importance of maintaining the closest coordination between the allies and the need for a common response, capable of keeping open a channel of dialogue with Russia to ease tensions, were also reiterated, while clarifying the serious consequences that a further deterioration of the situation could result.
The American president has assured that he has “total unanimity” with the European allies regarding the Ukrainian crisis. “I had a very, very, very good meeting. There is total unanimity with all the European leaders,” said Biden at the end of the videoconference.
The Pentagon has put 8,500 military on alert in case Russia invades Ukraine, said the spokesman, John Kirby, who stressed that “no mission has yet been assigned, no deployment order has been given” but it concerns having “men ready in case of need “.
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