Important Afghan role against terror

(ANSA) - Rome, December 1 - 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.