Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio has
said the extraordinary G20 summit that Italy, the duty president
of the group of the world's most advanced economies, is
proposing on the crisis caused the the Taliban's return to power
in Afghanistan will happen.
He said in an interview in Friday's edition of La Repubblica
that the summit would take place after the United Nations
General Assembly.
He added that the US's withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan
showed "the urgent need for a real EU defence (capability)
supported by foreign policy decisions that get away from the
right of veto of individual governments".
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