The Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, is in Munich to attend the Munich Security Conference.
The Deputy Prime Minister will preside over the first meeting of the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in the year of the Italian Presidency. The meeting will open with a discussion of the crisis in the Gaza Strip and its effects in the Middle East quadrant, and will continue with an exchange of views on the situation in the Red Sea. The second part of the meeting will be opened with the participation of the Ukrainian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba, where the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the continuation of G7 support for Kyiv will be addressed.
This will be followed by the signing of a number of agreements whereby Italy intends to support the recovery of Ukraine’s energy sector with the involvement of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
Afterwards, Minister Tajani will supervise the Munich Conference session devoted to the war in Ukraine, together with Ukrainian Minister Kuleba, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, and Speaker Emerita of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.
On the sidelines, Tajani will have bilateral meetings with foreign counterparts.
