"This is a moment in which the only possible answer is to join our efforts at the United Nations. It struck me how in these days, during the General Assembly, many speeches we have mentioned the United Nations Charter. Signing it was one of the best things humanity has ever done. This institution should always have a
leading role. "
According to sources present at the meeting, Prime Minister Mario Draghi said this during a bilateral meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres at the UN Headquarters in New York.
"I am extremely grateful for what you personally and all the United Nations have done to unblock wheat from the Black Sea ports, and for what you are doing in Libya," added the premier to Guterres, who praised him "for leadership in international level, for the ability you had together with Italy to carry out and unblock very important dossiers "and defined him as" a true champion of multilateralism ".
Guterres then underlined that "we try to use all possible margins to make ourselves useful. In the case of the unblocking of grain in the Black Sea ports, the United Nations system has worked and is working very well together".
Draghi also had a brief meeting with Ukrainian first lady, Olena Zelenska, who thanked him for the support and for the words spoken in his speech at the UN.
The prime minister confirmed Italy's proximity to Ukraine to Volodymyr Zelensky's wife.
He then left the UN to attend Joe Biden's reception for leaders at the Natural Science Museum.
At the end he left New York to return to Italy.
At the UN, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell announced that "other restrictive measures will be adopted as soon as possible in coordination with our partners", communicating the decision adopted by the Extraordinary Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union and specifying o that "we will continue to increase our military support for Ukraine and we will study a new package of sanctions targeting sectors of the Russian economy and a new list of individuals".
The "military support for Ukraine until victory" was also assured by British Prime Minister Liz Truss.