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08:19, December 06, 2007 |
Italy and Spain agreed that the international community's political strategy in Afghanistan needs to be rethought from scratch, Italian News Agency ANSA said on Wednesday.
Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema discussed the situation in Afghanistan with his visiting Spanish counterpart Miguel Angel Moratinos during a bilateral summit in Naples on Wednesday.
The required change of strategy will involve the organizing of an international conference and the nomination of a United Nations envoy in the central Asian country, according to D'Alema.
The minister said in an interview published in southern Italian daily Il Mattino on Wednesday he believed the envoy should be a prominent political figure who would be the "tangible sign of the international community's commitment."
NATO foreign ministers are expected to discuss these issues when they meet in Brussels on Dec. 6 and 7.
D'Alema spoke of Italy's call for a new strategy in Afghanistan in his interview with Il Mattino but insisted he was not talking about a withdrawal of Italian soldiers.
The Italian and Spanish ministers also discussed the Middle East during their talks in Naples, agreeing that the recent international summit in Annapolis had gone well and that the European Union should now play an active role in implementing the broad accords reached there.
Source: Xinhua
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