Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini from the Ramstein summit announces a new decree on sending weapons to Ukraine.
While M5s warns that it will not support non-defense weapon shipments.
"Italy will continue to do its part on the basis of the indications decided by the Italian Parliament. From this point of view,
there will be a new dispatch from the Italian side of military equipment, essential to continue supporting the Ukrainian resistance.
", Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini told Ramstein, referring, underlines the Defense, to the second inter-ministerial decree" currently being finalized, of the same nature as the previous tranches of aid, provided on the basis of requests from the Ukrainian side and in compliance with the resolutions of the Italian Parliament "." Our willingness to continue supporting the Kyiv Armed Forces is what I recently reiterated to the Ukrainian Defense Minister, Reznikov, during the phone call last week in which we discussed the needs of his country in terms of aid ", continued Guerini, who also underlined the importance of today's meeting, in Ramstein, between the countries that support Ukraine and of a format like today's"extremely useful for better coordinating ongoing actions ".
"The M5s opposes the sending of military and counter-offensive aid that go beyond the perimeter of the legitimate exercise of the right of defense referred to in Article 51 of the Charter of Human Rights".
Thus the M5s leader Giuseppe Conte at the end of the National Council of the Movement which approved the decision.
"We asked Prime Minister Draghi and Minister Guerini - said the M5s leader - to report to Parliament so that there is full agreement on the political direction and full possibility of knowing the government's programmatic interventions" on arms in Ukraine.
"A further hearing will take place on Thursday by the Minister of Defense, Lorenzo Guerini, at Copasir for an update on the situation in Ukraine, also in light of the allied meeting held today at the Ramstein base in Germany. During the hearing, information will also be given on the new inter-ministerial decree concerning the dispatch of equipment and weapons to Ukraine in accordance with the provisions of law decree 14/2022 ".
This was announced by the president of Copasir, Adolfo Urso.
Copasir, Urso informs, "will meet already this evening for the follow-up to the debate on the Report to Parliament on the consequences of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine in the field of energy security. The examination will continue in tomorrow's session".
Also tomorrow, continues the chairman of the Committee, "the
hearing of the honorable Paolo Guzzanti, former president of the parliamentary inquiry commission, in the context of the fact-finding inquiry 'on the methods of implementing the declassification of documents for better conservation and accessibility of documents';
while the hearing of the pro tempore Chief of Defense Staff, General Ezio Vecciarelli, is scheduled for Thursday as part of the fact-finding investigation on European intelligence and defense ".