Premier Giorgia Meloni said Wednesday
that lifting sanctions on Syria after the overthrow of Bashar
al-Assad's regime may be a good idea while stressing that it
might be too early to decide.
"You will have read that the EU High Representative (for Foreign
Affairs)
Kaja Kallas is opening to the hypothesis of removing sanctions
on Syria, another tool that can be used to get closer (to the
new leadership)," Meloni said as she reported to the Senate
before this week's EU summit.
"But it is obvious that we are moving in a situation that is not
very clear to anyone".
On Tuesday Meloni on Tuesday told the Lower House that Italy is
ready to dialogue with the new Syrian leadership, in agreement
with European and international partners.
"The fall of Assad's regime is good news, rightly celebrated by
the Syrian population after over a decade of civil war," she
said.
"The rebel forces that have established themselves are
heterogeneous, they have a different provenance and potentially
contrasting interests.
"There is obviously concern for the future of the nation.
"Italy, the only G7 nation to have an open embassy in Damascus,
is ready to dialogue with the new Syrian leadership, obviously
in a context of shared evaluations and actions with European and
international partners".
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