(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 29 - Talks in Rome Friday between Premier Mario Draghi and US President Joe Biden "focused on the excellent cooperation between the Italian presidency of the G20 and he US in managing the most important global challenges: the fight against the pandemic, combating climate change, relaunching the economy, and strengthening the multilateral system based on rules," said the premier's office.
The two leaders also "discussed bilateral relations, with particular reference to the opportunities offered by their respective economic recovery plans," Palazzo Chigi said.
"The two leaders reaffirmed the solidity of the transatlantic bond, and the usefulness of developing European defence for transatlantic security,, in a relationship of complimentarity".
Draghi and Biden also discussed "the principal international crises, in particular Afghanistan, in the wake of the outcome of he extraordinary G20 leaders' meeting on October 12, and the situation of instability in the Mediterranean and in Libya."
Biden told Draghi: "You are doing an extraordinary job here! We need to show that democracies can work and we can produce a new economic model. You are doing that".
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