Italy makes a "precise foreign policy choice, which will lead to reserving a place of honor for Africa in the agenda of our G7 presidency", said Prime Minister
Giorgia Meloni
, in her speech at the Italy-Africa summit in Senate.
Italy, she added, is "committed to demonstrating that we are aware of how interconnected the destiny of our continents is".
The Mattei Plan, explained Meloni, "can count on 5.5 billion euros between credits, gift operations and guarantees: around 3 billion from the Italian climate fund and 2.5 billion and a half from the Development Cooperation fund ".
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"We are united by the desire to understand. To understand and understand each other, so that there is no longer indifference to the fate of others", said the president of the Senate,
Ignazio La Russa
, in his institutional greeting at the Italy-Africa summit at Palazzo Madama, "a place of representation, discussion, dialogue, democracy and the history of our nation".
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From Morocco to Kenya, the pilot projects of the Mattei Plan
A large professional training center on renewable energy in Morocco, projects on education in Tunisia, others for accessibility to healthcare in the Ivory Coast: these are "some of the pilot projects" of the Mattei Plan announced by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, in his speech at the Italy-Africa summit underway in the Senate chamber.
"Sharing is one of the key principles of the Mattei Plan, the work of this summit will be crucial to enrich the path", explained Meloni, indicating projects also in Algeria, Mozambique, Egypt, the Republic of Congo, Ethiopia and Kenya.
Kelany: "Laying the foundations for the right not to emigrate"
"The Italy-Africa conference in Rome is an enormous diplomatic success for President Meloni. The non-predatory and equal cooperation project with African countries takes shape, translating the Mattei Plan for Africa into concrete actions that will give rise to a new paradigm : centrality of the Mediterranean on the geopolitical chessboard, opportunities for mutual growth and new horizons of stability. This process was triggered by Giorgia Meloni and the hope is that it will become a European project. Let us begin to lay solid foundations to guarantee Africans the sacrosanct right to not to emigrate and to be able to enjoy the enormous riches that Africa holds and which are unfortunately aimed at by that part of the world that it intends to continue to exploit".
This was declared by MP Sara Kelany, head of the Immigration department of Fratelli d'Italia.
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