Italy Wants to Accompany Its Ships Through the Red Sea on Its Own
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Italy can independently escort ships through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait due to delays in decision-making within the Apides mission.
The Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, has wanted to send a message to Europe: we will not wait for the mission Aspides to give support to the Italian merchant who intend to pass from Bab el-Mandeb, where remains the threat of attacks from the Houthi of Yemen. In parallel, after having resized own position specifying that the decision cannot [...] The article Crosetto writes to Kallas: "Reinforce the mission Aspides to make the ships pass from…
A frigate of the Aspides mission accompanies an Italian merchant in the journey through Bab el-Mandeb, "the door of tears." Behind the choice of Crosetto and the Navy there is a concrete dependence Italian and European from the point of stroking under threat Houthi: here 30% of the crude oil and more than 35% of the gas that arrive in Italy, while up to 225 billion Italian exports travel on routes that cross the same bottleneck
The Minister asks for a very urgent and decisive intervention: Rome ready to send new means, but costs and risks will have to be shared by the other Member States
The EU High Representative Kaja Kallas - as we learn - received a letter from Defense Minister Guido Crosetto on the Aspides mission. (ANSA)
Government nearing. The Minister of Defense writes to the High Representative: strengthening the Continental Mission Aspides, otherwise Italy will supply more boats but the costs are divided
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