Italy vocation to work for nations' cohesion - Mattarella

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 27 - Italy's vocation is to work for cohesion among nations, President Sergio Mattarella said Wednesday.
    He told the chiefs of staff of the air force that "you contribute to the defence of the democratic State and the rules of the international community that are essential for peaceful progress and for the cohesion between nations that we hope to restore as the Italian republic, that is the vocation that we have always cultivated.
    "It is a commitment made still more stringent by the international instability sparked by the invasion of Ukraine and the violence in the Middle East triggered by Hamas's cruel terrorist attack and the many civilian victims and also with the grave actions against the freedom of shipping in the Red Sea".
    (ANSA).