Mattarella, Italy's vocation is to work towards the cohesion of nations. President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella underlined this when speaking to the leaders of the Air Force.
"You contribute to the defense of the democratic state and the rules of the international community which are essential for peaceful progress and for the cohesion between nations that we hope to restore - this is the vocation we have always cultivated," he said. "It is a commitment made even more stringent by the international instability induced by the invasion of Ukraine and by the violence in the Middle East"