Rome, Mar 11 (LaPresse) – “We are facing an evident crisis of international law and multilateral organizations, and the breakdown of a shared world order. This is a long-standing process, but, as I have already said, it reached a clear turning point with the anomaly of the invasion of a neighboring nation by a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council—that is, the very body that should be the primary guarantor of international law. The resulting global destabilization has had repercussions in the Middle East as well, where the current conflict also has a clear start date, which is not February 28, 2026, but October 7, 2023,” said Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in her address to the Senate ahead of the European Council on March 19-20 and regarding developments in the Middle East crisis.
“It is within this context of the current international system crisis—where threats are increasingly frightening and unilateral interventions outside the scope of international law are multiplying—that we must place the American and Israeli intervention against the Iranian regime. An intervention in which, let me be clear, Italy does not take part and does not intend to take part,” Meloni emphasized. “A military escalation that Italy has, over the past months, committed itself to avoiding.”