NATO is fundamental to Italian
foreign policy, President Sergio Mattarella said Thursday.
"Italy has made of its choice to join a pact between free and
equal nations a foundation of its foreign policy," he said in a
statement, recalling the preamble of NATO's founding 1949
treaty, which stressed the importance of "living in peace with
all peoples and all governments".
The Atlantic Alliance was founded on freedom and the
pre-eminence of law, he said.
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