Tajani says asked southern front become NATO priority

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 3 - Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Wednesday he had successfully asked an Atlantic Council meeting to make NATO's southern front a priority for the alliance.
    "I'm very satisfied because the Italian request to look to the southern front was welcomed with great enthusiasm and the work done by NATO's group of experts, who prepared a document, was seen very positively," said Tajani, who is also deputy premier.
    "We spoke at length also of the possibility of having a special envoy for the southern front and I asked that the southern question should become priority for NATO. And I feel there was great attention to this". (ANSA).