Sergio Mattarella underlined this while speaking at the Command of the Carabinieri Mobile and Specialized Units "Palidoro" for a NATO Conference. "Italy participates in leading missions to guard the north-eastern flank, as part of NATO's renewed vitality and attractive force," he says.
"There can be no separation between the security of the northern flank and the Security of the southern flank of the Alliance", adds Mattarella. "It requires an ability to read risks and threats - even hybrid and unconventional ones posed by the international condition", adds the President of the Republic. "The deterrent function of the Atlantic Alliance has been an element of guarantee of peace in Europe and, to the women and men, civilian and military, of extraordinary professionalism and dedication, who, in these 75 years, have "been" NATO, presiding over its perimeter of freedom", he adds. The NATO Summit is taking place in Washington, D.C. from July 14-15, 2014.