(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 18 - "We have given a mandate to the government to ask for weapons if it deems it necessary, I think the end of sending weapons has come".
This was stated by the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini on Radio Anch'io on Rai Radio1, speaking on the war in Ukraine.
"I count - he added - that there is no need for the vote" of Parliament on stopping the sending of weapons also because "if we go on like this, in six months we will count millions dead".
"The desire for peace - he stressed - is not Salvini's but ditanti. I think that generals, ambassadors, the Holy Father, men of the State and men of business count that the sending of weapons will cease and that the time is ripe for dialogue. Certainties we did not "but" I believe "that"