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Meloni in al Sisi: 'Strong focus on Regeni and Zaki cases'

2022-11-08T07:49:43.046Z


As part of the bilateral meetings on the sidelines of COP27, the premier also saw the landlord, the president of the Arab Republic of Egypt. The meeting talked about energy supply, renewable sources, climate crisis and immigration. The issue of respect for human rights was raised and Italy's strong focus on the cases of Giulio Regeni and Patrick Zaki. Parade of leaders at Cop27, Guterres: 'Taxing fossil sources' (ANSA)


For an hour he comes face to face with Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in a bilateral official in Egypt.

Besides her, only Giuseppe Conte, in recent years, since Giulio Regeni was kidnapped, tortured and killed.

Giorgia Meloni arrives in Sharm el Sheikh to bring Italy's position on the fight against climate change, but the setting of Cop27, her debut on the world stage, is an opportunity to put all the issues of the international agenda on the table, from response to "Russian aggression" on Ukraine to energy cooperation to be strengthened with all partners, starting with Egypt.

On the table, next to the gas, there is the still unsolved case of the researcher from Trieste, as well as that of Patrick Zachi.

Two issues on which in Italy there is "the utmost attention"

With the Egyptian president he stops for more than an hour.

The issues are manifold, relations between the two countries at their lowest due to Cairo's failure to respect human rights.

Even if commercial relations have never failed, including collaboration in the energy field.

The diplomats work a long time to prepare for the meeting.

The Italian one with discretion, the Egyptian one ready to tell every detail step by step.

For two days Egyptian sources had already taken face to face for granted, confirmed with a concise note, after Cairo and only after the fact, by Palazzo Chigi.

The bilateral event takes place in the citadel of the Climate Conference, after a flash visit by the Prime Minister to the Italian Pavilion.

Stefano Boeri is there too,

which presents its vertical forest project for countries with arid climates (meanwhile designed for Dubai).

And shortly after, Cdp will present the Italian Climate Fund, manages it together with the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security, 840 million a year until 2026, then 40 million a year, with which Italy claims Meloni in the his speech in plenary, "triples" the efforts for the climate.

But the contrast to the rise in temperatures, especially for developing countries - on which Italy confirms its commitment, even to decarbonization, looking however at a "just transition" that leaves "no one behind" and that combine environmental, economic and social sustainability - takes a bit of a back seat given the premier's busy agenda.

The whirlwind of meetings opens in the morning with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, with whom he emphasizes the common commitment against anti-Semitism.

He continues with the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, with whom he stresses the importance of stability in the Horn of Africa and pushes collaboration on energy.

It continues with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

The two leaders discuss the need for a "

In the afternoon, the premier also meets the UN secretary general Antonio Guterres, and the Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who became the first country for gas supplies to Italy since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.

Even with Egypt, as Al Sisi's spokesman recalled, Italy has intensified "joint cooperation in the energy security dossier" thanks to the "partnership with Eni", which right in mid-April of this year a new agreement has been signed for 3 billion cubic meters of additional Egyptian LNG, not without raising political controversy - which is starting again today - precisely because of the implications of the Regeni case.

But realpolitik requires running to become independent from Russian gas.

And it is no coincidence that

energy supply is one of the points on which Palazzo Chigi emphasizes, together with climate and migrants.

And to "respect for human rights".

Source: ansa

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