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Italy’s foreign policy has not changed after the country received aid in the context of fighting the COVID-19 epidemic in China and Russia, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Tuesday in response to a one-day interview in followed by US Defense Minister Mark Esper to an Italian newspaper, according to Reuters, writes agerpres.ro.
“Regarding the geopolitics of aid recipients, I can confirm that our foreign policy is the same today as yesterday,” said Giuseppe Conte, quoted by La Stampa.
Mark Esper had said Monday by the same publication that Russia and China are taking advantage of the virus epidemic to advance their interests in Europe and “provoke divisions within NATO and in Europe.”
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The two states sent doctors, medical supplies, and masks to Italy, the first country in Europe most affected by the COVID-19 epidemic.
Conte also said that Italy had administered all the aid it had received “with complete transparency both for our public opinion and for our allies.”
“We are talking to everyone, but the pillars of our security are NATO and the European Union. And they continue to be,” Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini said in a separate interview with La Repubblica.
He added that Italy has received help from several countries, including the United States, China and Russia and European countries, but that it has not “changed in the least our traditional framework of international reference.”
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