Prime Minister Mario Draghi had a telephone conversation with the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin this morning. At the center of the talks were the latest developments in the Afghan crisis, the preparatory work for the upcoming G20 Summit and bilateral relations. Palazzo Chigi makes it known.
That the issue of the Afghan crisis is at the top of the prime minister’s agenda is demonstrated by the fact that Draghi never misses an opportunity to repeat that “there is an awareness that the humanitarian emergency is very serious”. So much so that during the extraordinary G20 summit dedicated to the Afghanistan emergency there was talk of “humanitarian catastrophe and with the approach of winter there is a perception of how the situation is precipitating”.
Neither the Russian president nor the Chinese leader Xi Jinping attended that summit. For Draghi, however, it was “A success”. A “first multilateral response” to the crisis. Despite the absence of the two leaders from the extraordinary G20, for Draghi it was still “worth it”. This morning, then, the phone call with Putin.