«Meeting in Bali a success, rapprochement with the West and the rest of the world on the condemnation of Russia»- Corriere.it

BALI – «It was a success and it was not obvious, we managed to make a joint statement on Ukraine, there is a rapprochement of the West with the rest of the world on the net condemnation» towards Moscow. Giorgia Meloni meets journalists at the end of the international summit of the top twenty economies in the world. She is out of breath, “excuse me, I only have a handful of minutes”, are her first words, she still has to meet the Chinese president before leaving and returning to Italy. But she is especially keen to point out one fact: «There was a lot of curiosity towards us, I didn’t even manage to do all the bilaterals that were requested by the other governments, of course there is the fact that I was the only woman sitting at the table as a representative of a state, but that’s not all”. In fact, the assessment of the Prime Minister at the end of the G20 begins by emphasizing the specific weight of her executive, attributing her strength to this: «Yes, I am a woman, but we are also a stable and solid government, which has a longer and more different from those who preceded us, the other Italian executives have always had a short horizon and in these cases it is difficult to have a visioninstead we can have a long-term strategy, we can make a difference, set up some bilateral relations in a different way, and this makes our international role easier”.

It is the political fact on which Giorgia Meloni insists the most. You do so by commenting on your meeting with Biden, in which he confirms that he has asked for greater attention to the prices of the liquid gas we import from the United States. She does so in support of the two days in which she spoke twice in the plenary and had almost a dozen meetings with as many leaders, she even remarks this in the conversation she had with the Australian premier, Albanian, of Italian origin, with whom we discussed on “two complementary economies” and this allows us to work differently from the past, is the conclusion of the reasoning. A reasoning that also applies “for the confrontation with Erdogan”, starting with dossiers of mutual interest on gas and energy. Meloni uses very harsh words on the war: the one of the last few hours “is Putin’s criminal bombing” against Kiev, and the incident in Poland, beyond the reconstructions, “the substance changes little», the fact remains that the Russian military attacks, even those of recent days, «are against all the norms of international law». At the end there is also a question on the conflict with France, on the cold of these hours with Macron: «I have met him several times in these two days, but there was no way to talk about European issues, we can face every day but in a different context», is the answer, undoubtedly diplomatic.