Italy won't go back on the Paris
climate accords and it hopes the US position turns out to be
positive after President Donald Trump said at the recent G7
summit in Sicily that he would announce it this week, Premier
Paolo Gentiloni said Tuesday.
"We took note of the Us' different position but I hope that
this position will turn out in a positive way", Gentiloni said
at a press conference with Canadian Premier Justin Trudeau.
"It is an accord from which we do not mean to retreat", he
added.
At the summit, Trump's refusal to back the deal led to its
absence from the final statement.
Italy shares German Chancellor Angela Merkel's view that the
EU "must take its future into its own hands", Gentiloni said at
the press conference with Trudeau.
Gentiloni stressed that the alliance with the US is very
important, but that "we have fundamental objectives which we
cannot renounce, such as the environment".
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