It will be 7.45 pm New York time, 1.45 am on the night of Friday 24 in Italy when Prime Minister Mario Draghi will connect to speak at the United Nations General Assembly. Twenty minutes of speech, less than ten folders that are the result of teamwork in which the members of the Office of diplomatic adviser Luigi Mattiolo took part, diplomats, but also his economic advisors starting with Francesco Giavazzi.
For the first time an Italian premier at the UNGA as G20 president
An intervention by the Prime Minister who sees for the first time an Italian premier also invested with the role of rotating president of the G20. In fact, part of the speech will touch on some aspects of the G20 agenda, starting with the post-pandemic economic recovery and the recipes for facing the energy transition and the new digital era. Draghi will emphasize the role of the European Union as a global player who has shown with the vaccination campaign that he is up to the challenge. A detail will also concern the role of Italy which currently sees one of the highest percentages of vaccinated people and which will be able to make 45 million vaccines available to the poorest countries.
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After withdrawing from Kabul, rethink another way of intervening in crisis areas
Particular emphasis will be placed by Draghi on the urgency of measures to contain climate change whose severity is almost equal to the effects of the pandemic. But precisely in view of a possible extraordinary G20 summit on Afghanistan at the end of the month or in the first days of October Draghi will address the question of the future of international “peace-keeping” or “peace-enforcement” missions. According to the Prime Minister, the disorderly withdrawal of Western forces from Afghanistan must not lead to a stop of the missions but, if anything, must represent an opportunity to rethink the role and functions of these missions in crisis areas.
Libya: do everything possible to hold elections on December 24th
Another theme addressed by Draghi is the Libyan question, with the invitation to continue all the efforts already included in the road map of the United Nations and the Berlin process to bring about a lasting ceasefire, the exit from Libyan territory of all forces military from other countries (Russia and Turkey in the first place) and create the conditions to celebrate the elections scheduled for 24 December.