Italian President Sergio
Mattarella on Monday said the outcome of UN climate change
conference COP25 is an example of how distant "awareness on the
need to save the planet is".
Speaking at a ceremony with the diplomatic corps ahead of the
Christmas holidays, Mattarella said that "the centrality of the
issue of a well-balanced and sustainable ecological transition
is an unavoidable fact in international relations".
The European Union, the president also said, "needs to make a
qualitative leap that the conference on the future of Europe
will need to favor, to complement with the Atlantic Alliance
that for the past 70 years has guaranteed peace and freedom and
which we would always like to be a tool of solidarity.
"There is widespread awareness regarding the need to defend
the environment", the president continued, also thanks to a
"lively and extensive youth movement".
Increasing awareness on climate change "now needs to be
translated into convinced and concrete" actions, the president
said.
Mattarella went on to warn against weakened multilateralism.
"The weakening of multilateralism and parallel development of
widespread tensions must raise alarm", he said at the ceremony.
"Recent developments in the Mediterranean strengthen concern.
"The return of military competition represents for the entire
international community a sign of historic regression" that is
full of risks, the president said.
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