15 minutes agoFrench Foreign Minister in Italy, first senior foreign official to visit after the pandemic
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)After three months of the lockdown regime and the day Italy opens its internal and external borders, French Foreign Minister Jean Yvres Le Drian arrives for an official visit to Rome. The head of French diplomacy is the first representative of a foreign state to visit Italy on its knees for weeks [...]
The head of French diplomacy is the first representative of a foreign state to visit Italy on its knees for weeks from pandemic.
And it is a strong symbolic gesture, a signal of special attention that the French government shows to Italy.
The French top diplomat will meet with his homogug Luigi Di Maio at the headquarters of the Italian Foreign Ministry.
The focus of the agenda will be the most important foreign policy topics such as Libya and Europe's role in the Libyan crisis, Syria, Iraq, Iran.
The two leaders of diplomacy are expected to discuss the tourism issue as well.
France, unlike some other European countries, has not closed borders with Italy, nor during weeks of isolation.
During his stay in Rome, Le Drian will visit the Civil Protection Directorate's headquarters in Rome, and will meet with the extraordinary Italian Commissioner to cope with the Coved emergency, as well as the Director of the Public Health Institute.
