Premier Matteo Renzi said after
Rome talks with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Tuesday that Ghani
"is tackling with courageous leadership both internal reforms
against corruption and the role of women as well as the foreign
front with an important role Afghanistan must play against
terrorism".
He said Italy would stay in Afghanistan with the US through
2016.
Renzi told Ghani that "we are united to the Afghan people
by a feeling of extraordinary friendship and affection and we
will do our all so that this country can finally know a season
of peace and prosperity".
"This opportunity is precious for me to give a warm welcome
to Rome to my dear friend Ghani whom I already had a chance to
meet six months ago in Herat at the ceremony in memory of the 54
Italians who have lost their lives in Afghanistan," he went on.
"To them goes the feeling of recognition and gratitude of
our homeland which is close to the pain of their families and
the Afghan people," Renzi said.
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