In the new European mission Aspides in the Red Sea, which will have its headquarters in Larissa, Greece, "there will be at least one Italian ship for 12 months. We will also evaluate the sending of aerial assets with surveillance and data collection tasks".
Thus the Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, in a hearing at the Defense commissions of the Chamber and Senate.
"Traffic from Russia and China, by express will of the Houthis - Crosetto recalled - will be able to continue to pass through the Red Sea and this creates a competitive imbalance which will have a violent and asymmetric impact on us and on our economies. It is one of the most effective tools with which Moscow and Beijing pursue the objective of unfairly prevailing in international competition and of gaining new spheres of influence by making the comparison with the West unsustainable.
This asymmetry - he underlined - will above all affect Europe and in particular the countries of the southern shore such as Italy cause of the marginalization of the Mediterranean.
For this reason it is necessary to act immediately and effectively to affirm international law and the free transit of goods".
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