NEW YORK, MAY 18 – Multilateralism is a key tool for a sustainable solution to global crises, agreed today the Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio and the President of the General Assembly Abdulla Shahid in their meeting at the United Nations in New York.
The talks ranged over the major issues of current international affairs, starting with the Ukrainian crisis and the reform of the Security Council in which Italy is engaged as coordinator of the Uniting for Consensus group. On that issue Shahid and Di Maio touched the recent General Assembly Resolution on veto power. The document adopted with the war in Ukraine in the background requires the Permanent Member who will use it in the future to come in front of the Assembly to explain its reasons.
Also discussed was the food crisis, which was the reason for Di Maio’s mission to the UN. The minister is participating today with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, representatives of FAO, WFP and some 30 countries in a Call of Action to coordinate possible measures to curb skyrocketing wheat and bread prices. “Problems that are affecting Italian families, but also in the Mediterranean and North Africa,” the minister ahead his departure for New York. (@OnuItalia)
