(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 18 - Italy is joining the global alliance against hunger and poverty with conviction, Premier Giorgia Meloni told the G20 summit in Rio Monday.
    Food security was one of the "priority challenges" for the Italian presidency of the G7, which promoted the Puglia Food Systems Initiative, "a concrete initiative available to the G20" and which also intends to operate "in synergy" with the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty, launched this morning by President Lula and to which "Italy joins with conviction", said Meloni during the first session of the G20 in the Brazilian city.
    The "cooperation between the G7 and G20", Meloni argued, can be "decisive" in finding "concrete and effective solutions to the complexity of the challenges of our time".
    These are challenges, Meloni said, which are increasingly "interconnected".
    She said that "the problems of the South are also the problems of the North of the world, and vice versa". For Meloni "the interdependence of our destinies is a fact" and requires "thinking outside the box" of the past. (ANSA).